The daily meanderings of a teacher

Author: birddroppings

  • Walking and listening among the Cotton Woods

    Bird Droppings January 8, 2017 Walking and listening among the Cotton Woods   Since starting my breathing treatments for sleep apenea, I awake to vivid dreams on some nights. Today I walked outside briefly as I do listening, observing, trying to understand this reality I am walking about in. The sky was sprinkled in clouds…

  • Can we say true heroism and humility are spelled the same?

    Bird Droppings January 6, 2017 Can we say true heroism and humility are spelled the same?   Even though I am one of the worst spellers in this local area, I know heroism and humility are technically spelled differently. I will concede to using words to come up with a perhaps catchy title for my…

  • Caring is a very precious commodity in life And some thoughts from Maxine Greene

    Bird Droppings January 5, 2017 Caring is a very precious commodity in life And some thoughts from Maxine Greene   As I am pondering my early hours today before heading to school an article dealing with charter schools and how they exclude many students. The air temperature is chilly outside and we are under a…

  • Tripping on a grain of sand and naming your baby Bentley

    Bird Droppings January 4, 2017 Tripping on a grain of sand and naming your baby Bentley   I was so very close to starting this day with the title of Bentley, however as I thought further some might elude that to a rather pricey car. Many years back I had a swimmer on the high…

  • Horses and Trains and learning

    Bird Droppings January 3, 2017 Horses and Trains and learning   It has been many years since I last rode on a train. I mean a serious train going more than the distance between concourses at an airport. Years ago when I lived in the Philadelphia area, we all used mass transit to commute, to…

  • The fragility of life

    Bird Droppings January 2, 2017 The fragility of life   Early this morning I was awakened a bit early our dog and we both needed to take a potty break. Hearing what I thought was rain and a teenager I assume tearing out of our subdivision about two in the morning did not help my…

  • Building Sandcastles drip by drip

    Bird Droppings January 1, 2017 Building Sandcastles drip by drip   It was nearly sixteen years ago when I was physically attending classes in graduate school nearly every day and before switching to Internet classes and WebCT. This took some getting used to going to school and then going to teach school. I was teaching…

  • Can teachers use learning as their pallet?

    Bird Droppings December 29, 2016 Can teachers use learning as their pallet?   I wrote the basics of this article nearly twelve years ago and at the time was thinking of an artist friend who was trying to define her art as well as searching for her own meaning in life. My friend often reflects…

  • Should children be left behind?

    Bird Droppings December 23, 2016 Should children be left behind?               “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in         respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It     is chosen and foreordained, and he only…

  • It is the small pieces that seriously matter

    Bird Droppings December 21, 2016 It is the small pieces that seriously matter the most   “Until you can clearly see each piece of the puzzle you will never be able to understand the whole.” Frank Bird, grandfather, teacher and ponderer   I am sitting here on the last day of school before the Christmas…