The daily meanderings of a teacher

Author: birddroppings

  • In a world of data can we still use intuition?

    Bird Droppings July 9, 2018 In a world of data can we still use intuition?   I mentioned to a fellow teacher I can tell when a child has emotional issues most of the time after observing a few minutes and listening. Granted observations are part of most evaluations but I was referring to an…

  • Just a morning observation

    Bird Droppings July 9, 2018 Just a morning observation   “I do not write from mythology when I reflect upon Native American spirituality in this book. In my own opinion, mythology leads to superstition; and superstition has proved fatally destruction to many millions down through time. It is ironic, then that Dominant Society accuses Native…

  • Foxfire is a name for a fungus glowing in the dark, Until you wander up Black Rock Mountain

    Bird Droppings July 7, 2018 Foxfire is a name for a fungus glowing in the dark, Until you wander up Black Rock Mountain   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley   In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a…

  • Are we missing Creativity?

    Bird Droppings July 4, 2018 Are we missing Creativity?   This was another quiet morning as I wandered out and about already birds hiding from view are calling. As for the crickets and frogs as always a beautiful chorus for the morning awakening. Yesterday later in the day several tree frogs visited our back porch…

  • the ability to surmount those learning difficulties

    Bird Droppings July 3, 2018 the ability to surmount those learning difficulties   We celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I have watched the materialism of our culture run rampant. I am equally as involved having grandkids over, planning fireworks, swimming and picnic etc. Perhaps I should not have read Russell Means thoughts…

  • Direction is needed when speaking of velocity

    Bird Droppings July 2, 2018 Direction is needed when speaking of velocity   Over the past week or so I worked on several paper ideas, sat on my sofa watching netflix,  dabbled in my yard briefly around rain drops, drove up to the mountains for a day with my wife and swam with my grand…

  • In pursuit of excellence in learning

    Bird Droppings July 1, 2018 In pursuit of excellence in learning   I am working on my paper for graduate school and woke up very early in the morning with several ideas running through my head. I stepped outside briefly and I heard the crickets and tree frogs as the sounds of early morning surrounded…

  • Teaching can be successful

    Bird Droppings June 30, 2018 Teaching can be successful   So as I do on many mornings when I get the time I walked out to a quiet corner of my back yard except today it is to move my spot. Developers have purchased the bank owned land in this development and are planning on…

  • Seeking a destination

    Bird Droppings June 28, 2018 Seeking a destination “Life is about the journey not the destination; we don’t know what tomorrow brings” Steven Tyler, AEROSMITH Every once in a while I get totally amazed, and as I was driving from point A to point B not too many days ago a song was playing in…

  • Should we be trying to fill a liter bottle?

    Bird Droppings June 27, 2018 Should we be trying to fill a liter bottle?   Every year it appears in education we have a new trend, basically analogous to trying to pour five gallons of material into a liter bottle using a funnel. As you try obliviously a large portion of material spills out and…