The daily meanderings of a teacher

Author: birddroppings

  • Why am I looking for data in a data-less environment?

    Bird Droppings February 17, 2017 Why am I looking for data in a data-less environment?   I read earlier this morning a dialogue of sorts from a young man who is currently serving in the military. He is trying to decide on his future as he pieces together in his dialogue options and possibilities not…

  • Listening to my doctor

    Bird Droppings February 16, 2017 Listening to my doctor   Somehow for nearly sixteen years I have written and produced Bird Droppings, inserting into Word Press, Facebook and in the past yahoo groups and an email list of people wanting to read Bird Droppings. Even on days I have been away from computers usually within…

  • Hearing an owl

    Bird Droppings February 15, 2017 Hearing an owl   “If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator.”…

  • It is only a dropped feather?

    Bird Droppings February 14, 2017 It is only a dropped feather?   “If we consider the eagle feather with its light and dark colors, we could argue that ‘the dark colors are more beautiful and, therefore, naturally more valuable,’ or vice versa. Regardless of which colors are more beautiful, or necessary, or valuable, the truth…

  • Is it saying goodbye or is it hello?

    Bird Droppings February 13, 2017 Is it saying goodbye or is it hello?   It might have been the fact I had never pulled out my Eagle Scout card from 1967 in class before that got me thinking back. While mired in controversy nationally in recent years the Boy Scouts of America have contributed greatly…

  • What if treaties and promises were all kept

    Bird Droppings February 10, 2017 What if treaties and promises were all kept   I begin each typical morning waking up and finding my way to my computer taking the dog out if he wants to, checking my iPad, making sure my connection is on or network up since we have an archaic internet provider…

  • Trust and how we have such a hard time with it

    Bird Droppings February 9, 2017 Trust and how we have such a hard time with it   So many special events coming up, Valentine’s Day, more “possible” snow, income taxes, and best of all one more week till winter break. Do I go out and cut down a tree, I wouldn’t know how to decorate?…

  • Teaching is a journey it is not copy, paste or bubble.

    Bird Droppings February 8, 2017 Teaching is a journey it is not copy, paste or bubble.   “To project an image of what Public Education in the US might become in the 21st Century is more to move back and forth between the predictable and the possible.” Maxine Greene, Colombia University, res: Imagining futures: the…

  • Should our children be going to school?

    Bird Droppings February 7, 2017 Should our children be going to school?   After reading Joel Spring’s book, Political Agendas for Education, one might wonder why we even have schools. Spring’s implies they are simply to create and mold youth into whatever it is those in power deem feasible. His idea is that it is…

  • Listening to a five note flute and thinking about friends

    Bird Droppings February 6, 2017 Listening to a five note flute and thinking about friends   I was fishing with my grandson at the Atlanta Children’s Museum, when my wife, who I could see with our granddaughter a hundred feet away playing in the moon sand called me. I looked over as I reached for…