The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 30, 2020LIFE Morning is a special time for me, a beginning of a new day. Several aspects make it special first one of making my wife’s lunch, I sit and smudge white sage in the darkness on my back porch, then I sit and begin my writing and reading which has become…

Bird Droppings October 28, 2020Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk if you listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to other voices in nature.…

Bird Droppings October 27, 2020 Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets? Morning is a special time for me always a new beginning. That might be far too easy of a way to say what I am trying to say. Today I went out a bit early from the house to take out…

Bird Droppings October 26, 2020 Can we find answers outside our windows? It has been a few years since the largest ever lottery drawing and the frenzy to buy a ticket which was crazy. While in SC my wife and I got a Powerball, ticket seems we got thinking hey we win we could buy…

Bird Droppings October 24, 2020Wondering why on a Saturday morning I watched the debate from our condo on Pawleys Island. My wife and I escaped for a long weekend to give her a break from a hectic clinic schedule and me from the solitude of being retired. In a few hours we will be going…

Bird Droppings October 21, 2020Trying to find where community exists It was some time back in my doctorial course work, I was in a class on educational communities which featured all total in the two courses fifteen texts. All of the texts have an under lying theme of caring and relationships as a key to…

Bird Droppings October 20, 2020An eclectic morning It has been a few years since over lunch a group of students and I began discussing, The Davinci Code and other philosophical diversions and fearing death as a basis for religion came up. As I get older sitting around wondering about life and death each little joint…

Bird Droppings October 19, 2020 What is that piece 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…

Bird Droppings October 17, 2020 Within the circle of life, a new life coming I have wandered many miles the past few days. It has been a few days since my wife and I shared a trip to the North Georgia Mountains farmers market and today we will be looking for a few more pumpkins…

Bird Droppings October 16, 2020Words not spoken are some of the most profound wisdom I am sitting at least thinking about writing and working on a chapter for my dissertation words are what is on my mind right now. I just commented on a Facebook post about learning languages and how I know enough in…