The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: A teachers journey

  • Surmounting Learning Difficulties

    Bird Droppings October 4, 2011 Surmounting learning difficulties “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss “There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Bottome An interesting start to…

  • My graduate studies are making sense

    Bird Droppings October 3, 2011 My graduate studies are making sense This coming Friday we as teachers in Walton County will not get paid as it was one of our furlough days imposed by our Board of education due to funding cuts from our governor and of course the schools will be closed. It was…

  • MWSLCB – Maybe we should leave children behind?

    Bird Droppings October 2, 2011 Maybe we should leave children behind? “I was in another lifetime one of toil and blood, when blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud. I came in from the wilderness a creature void of form. ‘Come in’ she said ‘I’ll give you shelter from the storm’.”…

  • Wondering why on a Saturday morning

    Bird Droppings October 1, 2010 Wondering why on a Saturday morning “I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and believe in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and…

  • What does it take for the light bulb to go on?

    Bird Droppings September 30, 2011 What’s it take for that light bulb to go on? It has been nearly four years since my doctorial cohort ended and we began the journey on our own. Most of us will have had a few classes or two together here and there and are into and are beginning…

  • Can that aspect of who we are that we call soul be defined

    September 29, 2011 Can that aspect of who we are we call soul be defined “Soul is different from spirit, the deep soul is the way we live everyday, our longings and our fears.” Thomas Moore It has been over twenty years since I first read this book written by Thomas Moore. I picked up…

  • One of the founding fathers who stood till the end

    Bird Droppings September 28, 2011 One of the founding fathers who stood till the end “Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” Alexander Hamilton As I looked through news this morning many of the situations…

  • Hunting for the right words

    Bird Droppings September 26, 2011 Hunting for the right words “The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” Robert M. Pirsig, American author Whether it is trying to offer a few words of condolence to friends whose loved one has passed away or trying to sort out…

  • Right may be wrong

    Bird Droppings September 24, 2011 Right may be wrong “One of the most common errors is to suppose that the opposite of being wrong is right, when in many cases it is only another way of being wrong. We see this most obviously in political and governmental doctrines, where one extreme proves as futile as…

  • Learning to Understand and or

    Bird Droppings September 23, 2011 Learning to Understand and or Trying to come to grips with terminal consequences Most recently the state of Georgia’s attention was drawn to a state prison in a small rural community just off the interstate. The Jackson State Prison is home to at least one inmate that I know a…