The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: The Art of Learning: Using the Foxfire Core Practices as a pallette

  • It is about telling our grand children

    Bird Droppings December 15, 2014 It is about telling our grand children On a busy weekend of college graduation, family time and trying to recover I sat with, played with, talked to and enjoyed the company of two of my grandchildren. My grandson and I learned to crawl upstairs of course that is where the…

  • Reading about your own view sometimes offers a clue

    Bird Droppings December 12 2014 Reading about your own view sometimes offers a clue After nearly thirty six years of marriage it seems almost like day one. Every day and each day keeps getting better. Periodically over the past years I would receive at some odd hour of the night and or morning a paper…

  • Finding the right spot for the puzzle pieces

    Bird Droppings December 11, 2014 Finding the right spot for the puzzle pieces “In order to learn the nature of the myriad things, you must know that although they may look round or square, the other features of oceans and mountains are infinite in variety; whole worlds are there. It is so not only around…

  • Can you give it one more try?

    Bird Droppings December 10, 2014 Can you give it one more try? “You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.” Satchel Paige often attributed to J. Askenberg Sitting here this morning after walking the dog out into one of the coldest nights and mornings…

  • Possibilities

    Bird Droppings December 9, 2014 Possibilities “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” Les Brown I was sitting talking with one of my sons yesterday remembering when I was their age. I should say trying to remember when I was their age that would be more appropriate. It has been a few years…

  • Why do we even have public education?

    Bird Droppings December 8, 2014 Why do we even have public education? For teachers today is the National Day of Action. Standup for what you believe in. I shared an article that references children as others yesterday. Our children to corporate entities are simply others, consumers and I have seen the world capital used in…

  • Go up another rung!

    Bird Droppings December 7, 2014 Go up another rung! A week or so of testing is coming up and the mountain is nearly climbed as we approach the holidays. I even with my aversion to shopping will be going out with my wife to brave the masses of the malls and finish up the majority…

  • What is the Holy Grail solution/answer in education?

    Bird Droppings December 5, 2014 What is the Holy Grail solution/answer in education? “Obsessive search for the holy grail through only that which can be measured and documented effectively diminishes the sacred and leaves us standing empty without souls.” Dr. Grant Bennett A day or two ago I got a bit carried away and wandered…

  • What is this aspect you cannot teach teachers?

    Bird Droppings December 4, 2014 What is this aspect you cannot teach teachers? “Studies suggest that instructional and management processes are key to effectiveness, but many interview and survey responses about effective teaching emphasize the teacher’s affective characteristics, or social and emotional behaviors, more than pedagogical practice.” James H. Stronge, Qualities of Effective Teachers I…

  • Can we find answers outside our windows?

    Bird Droppings December 3, 2014 Can we find answers outside our windows? As I read and pondered a world engrossed with money and how we can spend money. I wonder if perhaps some of the thinking that is bringing so many American Indians back to their more traditional world views has merit. I was trying…