The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings April 28, 2020 A rock flower and song   A journey begins with a step and apathy begins with turning your back and saying I don’t care. Before we left school for the virus I had my last IEP of the year. I recall my laptop was acting weirder than normal and all…

Bird Droppings April 27, 2020 Driving up a mountain takes considerable effort   I am looking forward to another trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire Museum property. In the past, the site was used as a focus of Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching.…

Bird Droppings April 26, 2020 Using Pronouns   It was one of those days yesterday and a word caught my attention as I was listening to a friend talk. The word was them. I never realized the extent of prejudice till a pronoun was used. Such words as they, them, or those people never were…

Bird Droppings April 23, 2020 Are you a Weginahsa?   “The work of a teacher – exhausting, complex, idiosyncratic, never twice the same – is at its heart, an intellectual and ethical enterprise. Teaching is the vocation of vocations, a calling that shepherds a multitude of other callings. It is an activity that is intensely…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2019 Can we find truth in an untruthful world?   I went back to a book again for the third or fourth time, a book titled; Every day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous women, by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the past Chief of The Cherokee Nation…

Bird Droppings April 21, 2020 Pondering and thinking about the lyrics from an old friend   Back in the “normal” days, I stood in line behind a young man in his mid-thirties and I assume his wife at a BBQ place at Stone Mountain Park. I know we can argue it is a memorial to…

Bird Droppings April 20, 2020 Making a difference each day   “Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire   A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing. As I…

Bird Droppings April 19, 2020 I detest shopping but I really like Kroger   About three years back I spent nearly a week of using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer until getting the fan fixed. It was interesting I had two thoughts while similar that came to me this morning as I…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2020 Watching a hawk fly by   For the first time in my teaching in public school nearly twenty years I am not required to teach to the test. Got me thinking back a few years. I have over the years attended numerous track meets. I would take a few photos…

Bird Droppings April 17, 2020 It is said dreams do not stand alone   “You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach   It has been so many years since I first experienced the whimsical book Jonathan…