The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings March 14, 2021Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers? In a ninth-grade literature class that I happened to co-teach many years ago, I was introduced to the book, Freedom Writers Diary and the film based on the book. In some ways, the story is similar to the story of Foxfire. Erin…

Bird Droppings March 12, 2021Teaching and life are simply feeding wolves As I opened my computer this morning a virus leads the news stories. A year ago, the numerous news stories and jokes were addressing the college guidance company that was busted for getting wealthy kids into college for money. Today we are faced with…

Bird Droppings March 11, 2021Our teaching can make a difference every day I recall one day that I was looking through data as I sat through a special education training session. This is an interesting situation. I was reviewing data from a recent benchmark test in biology. An extremely poorly made and designed test that…

Bird Droppings March 10, 2021 Should I be a wolf or dog in education? In light of watching current news and political turmoil I recalled a trip to the Atlanta Zoo. I was approached as I walked up the hill at the Zoo by an elderly man. I had never met this man previously and…

Bird Droppings March 9, 2021Can we teach again a love of learning This has been a perplexing time of my life. I recall an event, a car wreck in which a young man was killed and his passenger who was a good friend of my youngest son was severely injured. My thoughts rambled back to…

Bird Droppings March 8, 2021Religion is what you make of it “A poor devotee points to the sky and says, ‘God is up there.’ An average devotee says, ‘God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master.’ The best devotee says, ‘God alone is and everything I perceive is a form of God.’” Ramakrishna Ramakrishna…

Bird Droppings March 5, 2021The inability of surmounting learning difficulties It has been a over a year since my surgical procedure to repair my Achilles tendon. I have been extremely occupied with writing lately. I had forgotten that two years or so ago I had four surgeries over about eight weeks. Two weeks back I…

Bird Droppings March 4, 2021Seeking perfection in a world full of mud “I have found there are those who can write and speak fluently and yet do not have anything to say and then there are those who have something to say who may not be so fluent. The big question is who do, you…

Bird Droppings March 3, 2021Teachers! We should always be near the edge. I remember taking groups hiking in North Georgia and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail dropping two hundred feet down looking over and nearly falling. A few summers…

Bird Droppings March 2, 2021We need LOVE Sometimes we so easily use the word love. It gets used daily by many folks and yet do we truly have any conception of what it is we speak. I was just in a conversation and the word love came up, I responded how we each have our…