The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings November 2, 2020I still like the seagull book As I get older and I really feel old today now seventy one years and a day old. Once upon a time, that line has started so many stories in my day that perhaps it would be a good way to start today. Many years…

Bird Droppings November 1, 2020Education is turning an ugly face jug not pouring in a mold Sitting waiting for my grandkids to come by and celebrate Halloween and my birthday. I have used the line I was born on All Saints Day in St. Joseph’s Hospital many times. My last church affiliation was being confirmed…

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…