The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 30, 2020 Are we experiencing genocide of learning?   In the midst of my daily journals entries lately it gets hectic. I am trying to regain strength lost from my leg injury, surgery, and six months of casts, do my writing for my doctorate program, visit with friends, research, reading and discussing…

Bird Droppings July 29, 2020 Can we use the word sacred truthfully?   “Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of freedom   I have been…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2019 Doing what you love is not really work   “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham   For many local teachers next week is getting back to school for teacher workdays. I am sitting here getting ready to ride…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2020 Is there a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?   In the course of a few days several storms passed through quickly each a very definitive front literally flying by and all ending with rainbows, or so I have been told. On one occasion a twin rainbow.…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2020 Pondering and thinking wiping away a tear or two   I was up incredibly early today wishing I could have been doing my laps in the pool, as a great horned owl was calling in the woods. It seems it was more than one as around me several were calling…

Bird Droppings July 20, 2020 It takes more than one strand to make a rope, in life and in education.   “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.” Faith Baldwin   Each day as I talk…

Bird Droppings July 19, 2020 How do we know we are grown up?   “The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them; he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself; he becomes wise.” Alden Nowlan   Earlier this week a former student posted…

Bird Droppings July 18, 2020 Should we consider ignorance a part of the journey?   “If I want to justify my existence, and continue to be obsessed with the notion that I’ve got to do something for humanity — well, teaching ought to quell that obsession — and if I can ever get around to…

Bird Droppings July 17, 2020 How capable do we need to be? Inspired by a student.   What a contrast to only a few days ago listening to the Atlantic Ocean, the moon is coming back smiling at me as I went out in the wee hours with a crystal-clear sky. There was a gentle…

Bird Droppings July 16, 2020 Doing is the best teacher It has been an interesting week already. Monday, I did some running around, Tuesday I cut grass and cleaned the garage, Wednesday I went to several doctors literally all day, today I am working in the yard again. One year ago, roughly I decided to…