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Caring is a very precious commodity in life, and a few good thoughts from Maxine Greene and Nel Noddings.
Bird Droppings October 15, 2025 Caring is a very precious commodity in life, and a few good thoughts from Maxine Greene and Nel Noddings. As I was pondering in the early hours today, before getting my day started, several articles caught my attention. Religion and education are two of my favorites. The first was how…
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For some, creating and writing in a digital world is difficult.
Bird Droppings October 13, 2025For some, creating and writing in a digital world is difficult. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley In 1965, I was introduced to this author in a tenth-grade English Class. The book Brave New World was…
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Like the spider web, all of life is connected and intertwined.
Bird Droppings October 3, 2025Like the spider web, all of life is connected and intertwined. As I thought about the Sydney J. Harris passage below, I recall a walk one morning out to a quiet spot where I would meditate, and something hit me as I faced east towards the rising sun, the gossamer threads…
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It would be great if we could script great teachers or develop a package that truly provides teachers with student learning.
Bird Droppings October 1, 2025 It would be great if we could script great teachers or develop a package that truly provides teachers with student learning. I have watched several movies about teachers over the years. It hit me as I thought it would be great if we could provide a package for new teachers…
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Taking small steps is a key component of patience
Bird Droppings September 30, 2025 Taking small steps is a key component of patience “Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow How many times are we told “take your time”? So often in life, we are anxious to get the job finished or…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 