The daily meanderings of a teacher

Author: birddroppings

  • Using pronouns to cover up

    Bird Droppings March 9, 2018 Using pronouns to cover up   My mornings used to consist of a trip to Quick Trip to get unsweet tea and fill my thermal cup with ice. Today was different and as I drove toward QT I by chance caught a blur on the road, some movement in my…

  • Should I be a wolf or dog in education?

    Bird Droppings March 7, 2018 Should I be a wolf or dog in education?   In light of watching current news and political turmoil I recalled a trip to the Atlanta Zoo. I was approached as I walked up the hill at the Zoo by an elderly man. I had never met this man previously…

  • Teaching can make a difference each day

    Bird Droppings March 6, 2018 Teaching can make a difference each day   “Dialogue, is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire   A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing.…

  • Potential is only that unless it is acted upon

    Bird Droppings March 5, 2018 Potential is only that unless it is acted upon   “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly…

  • Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?

    Bird Droppings March 4, 2018 Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?   This is perhaps a loaded question in lieu of today’s educational climate. Watching the news and the major effort under way to dismantle public schools through vouchers, “school choice” and other means we need to look at what we want…

  • Puzzle’s always are missing a piece

    Bird Droppings March 2, 2018 Puzzle’s always are missing a piece   Shell Silverstein tells and has written a great story of the missing piece. A pie shaped piece of a circle is all alone looking for its circle to be whole.   “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what…

  • I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING.

    Bird Droppings March 1, 2018 I am pondering about 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…

  • A morning meandering while the moon is glowing

    Bird Droppings February 28, 2018 A morning meandering while the moon is glowing Later today I will be tutoring a student trying to get caught up and return to public school. My first thing this morning was reading through several old emails from my doctorate and graduate cohort friends as some are defending their dissertations…

  • Wet and dreary as I ponder educational genocide and or NCLB, norming children, only leaves the best

    Bird Droppings February 27, 2018 Wet and dreary as I ponder educational genocide and or NCLB, norming children, only leaves the best   I was huddled in my blanket as I went outside to sit and think a bit earlier granted I was barefooted. The air was still except for some dripping still from yesterday’s…

  • Trying to find a window can be a chore if you do not know where to look

    Bird Droppings February 26, 2018 Trying to find a window can be a chore if you do not know where to look   I woke up very early today as our dog was barking to go out. I walked out on my back porch only to catch a glimpse of the rain falling along the…