The daily meanderings of a teacher

Category: The Foxfire Approach to Teaching

  • We need both the Rock and the Smoke

    Bird Droppings April 12, 2017 We need both the Rock and the Smoke   “If people find no room in their lives to pray or to meditate, to reflect deeply on why they have been created and what they must do with their lives, and to listen with all of their being to the guidance…

  • It is said dreams do not stand alone

    Bird Droppings April 10, 2017 It is said dreams do not stand alone “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach It has been so many years since I first experienced the whimsical book Jonathan Livingston Seagull,…

  • What about adding to reality TV, The great teachers of America?

    Bird Droppings April 7, 2017 What about adding to reality TV, The great teachers of America?   I hope to get back to grad school here shortly and finish my twelve yearlong doctorate. I am set up to teach several new college classes when I get back on track which had me started on a…

  • Looking for and clearing a pathway

    Bird Droppings April 5, 2017 Looking for and clearing a pathway   A little over a year ago I started back on Weight Watchers and lost about thirty five pounds. I had never thought of changing medications for blood pressure. It seems as the week progressed I became dehydrated and by Thursday my kidneys were…

  • It is about random acts of kindness

    Bird Droppings February 21, 2017 It is about random acts of kindness   I was a bit later than I planned to get started this morning. I have a long day of writing for school and personally today. I got up this morning and my son’s faithful dog decided I did not need sleep late.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Bird Droppings January 31, 2017 A chill in the air but not in the heart, thank you Maya Angelou   For several days the now we have been balancing between warm and cold weather in the early mornings which still is too cold for the crickets and tree frogs who need an ambient temperature a…

  • Should we be examining the threads of life?

    Bird Droppings January 30, 2017 Should we be examining the threads of life?   “Man did not weave the web of life he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle, 1854   It has been a few years since I read a National Geographic…

  • Finding a way to forgive

    Bird Droppings January 16, 2017 Finding a way to forgive   “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Mahatma Gandhi   It was a little over four years ago I spent the morning on a field tip of sorts for a graduate school class. We visited the MLK Jr. Memorial…