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Why do we have public education? To educate all our Children.
Bird Droppings July 30, 2025Why do we have public education? To educate all our Children. For all teachers, over the next few weeks, a new school year. Perhaps today is a day of action. Stand up for what you believe in. I read an article that references children as others yesterday. The way a profiteer…
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Checking the toes for mittens
Bird Droppings July 29, 2025 Checking the toes for mittens It has been some time since one of my granddaughters came to me to show off her new hat and mittens. It was quite a sight, clad in a t-shirt, diaper, mittens, and ski cap that looked like a penguin she was showing off for…
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Looking for synchronous moments
Bird Droppings July 28, 2025 Looking for synchronous moments Every year for five or so I have had lunch during teacher preplanning with my oldest son and a good friend whom I used to coteach with. Today was that day, and following, I walked around the school visiting with old friend from the high school…
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Should we even consider ignorance, or I could say lack of experience, a part of the journey?
Bird Droppings July 27, 2025 Should we even consider ignorance, or I could say lack of experience, a part of the journey? Over the past few days, I have been looking at or pondering the idea of experiences and how many people do not have experiences, for example, in comparison to my own. I have…
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I find myself lately asking. How do we know if we are still human?
Bird Droppings July 25, 2025I find myself lately asking. How do we know if we are still human? Perhaps it is from growing up in a situation where we were daily aware of special needs children and adults from the birth of my younger brother till his passing almost twenty years ago. Those in my…
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The impact of synchronicity, or perhaps you could say, in my life, the saga of synchronicity
Bird Droppings July 24, 2025The impact of synchronicity, or perhaps you could say, in my life, the saga of synchronicity I’m sitting in my backyard beside my medicine circle. We’ve got two wind chimes, and every once in a while, the chimes will sound as the breeze picks up. I just walked through my yard…
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What do teachers know?
Bird Droppings July 23, 2025What do teachers know? “Teachers are one of the nation’s most important resources for providing the skills, values, and knowledge that prepare young people for productive citizenship – but more than this, to give sanctuary to their dreams and aspirations for a future of hope, dignity, and justice. It is indeed…
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Pondering and thinking, wiping away a tear or two
Bird Droppings July 22, 2025 Pondering and thinking, wiping away a tear or two I was outside very early today, doing my laps in the pool as a great horned owl was irritating my dog, keeping him up. It seems it was more than one, as several were calling back and forth in an eerie…
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Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
Bird Droppings July 20, 2025Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Over a few days, storms passed through quickly, very definitive fronts flying by, and all ending with rainbows. On several occasions, twin rainbows. On the other hand, my sunrises have been off numerous clouds block the sun and offer…
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I am listening to a chorus of frogs, crickets, and an occasional owl.
Bird Droppings July 15, 2025I am listening to a chorus of frogs, crickets, and an occasional owl. “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd Most every night and early morning, when I walk about, especially early in the morning, I listen to the choral arrangement of tree frogs, crickets, whippoorwills,…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 