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Reflecting on getting older, I might ponder here for a bit since I might forget something.
Bird Droppings March 9, 2026Reflecting on getting older, I might ponder here for a bit since I might forget something. As I am now seventy-six, going on twenty-five, I have been thinking, or pondering, as I say. I started writing my daily sojourns nearly twenty-five years ago. I first used a YAHOO group, then Myspace,…
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Finding the right spot for the puzzle pieces once we realize we have a puzzle
Bird Droppings February 8, 2026 Finding the right spot for the puzzle pieces once we realize we have a puzzle “In order to learn the nature of the myriad things, you must know that although they may look round or square, the other features of oceans and mountains are infinite in variety; whole worlds are…
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Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?
Bird Droppings March 5, 2026Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers? In a ninth-grade literature class I co-taught many years ago, I was introduced to the book Freedom Writers Diary and the film based on it. In some ways, the story is similar to Foxfire. Erin Gruell, a first-year brand-new teacher at an…
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Our teaching can make a difference every day, pouring a gallon of information into a liter bottle.
Bird Droppings March 3, 2026Our teaching can make a difference every day, pouring a gallon of information into a liter bottle. I recall one day when I was looking through data while sitting through a special education training session. This is an interesting situation. I was reviewing data from a recent biology benchmark test. It…
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Teaching as improvisational art using learning as the palette
Bird Droppings February 28, 2026 Teaching as improvisational art using learning as the palette I wrote the basics of this article nearly 17 years ago, thinking of an artist friend, now a computer programmer, who was trying to define her art and searching for her meaning in life. My friend often reflected on her political…
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Where is the passion in our teachers?
Bird Droppings February 27, 2026Where is the passion in our teachers? Two events happened to me over the past two days. Yesterday I spent fifteen minutes talking with a friend who was retiring as principal of a school I hold dearly. In the course of the conversation, she said I miss teaching, maybe I will…
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I am pondering Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform.”I find the answer is simple: CARING.
Bird Droppings February 26, 2026I am pondering Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform.”I find the answer is simple: CARING. “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” Carl G. Jung Over the…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 