The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings November 6, 2019 Reconciling the importance of present, past and future   I spent the better part of yesterday avoiding my direction so intent on the moment I was missing cues to the past and future. As an empathetic human being I get caught up at times in the emotions and feedback of…

Bird Droppings November 5, 2019 It is a new day, a new start, and always day one   Feeling old today now that I am working on my seventieth first year of life and a cold front coming in, my bones are aching. I remember nearly thirteen years ago as we got closer to the…

Bird Droppings November 4, 2019 Teaching is always climbing up another rung   I had a great night sleep. I was planning on writing this morning. I have three IEP’s to do final draft, and only a few pages left to edit for my pre-prospectus for my dissertation I would like to have competed by…

Bird Droppings November 3, 2018 I still like the seagull book   As I get older and I really feel old today now seventy years and two days 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…

Bird Droppings November 1, 2019 Education is turning an ugly face jug not pouring in a mold   It has been a few years since the last time I talked with and watched the late Cleater Meadors turn a jug on the potter’s wheel at Mossy Creek Arts and Crafts fair in Perry Georgia. A…

Bird Droppings October 31, 2019 The Journey Part 2   I had the opportunity to visit and observe in a class room many years ago. To actually visit and see this particular class had been a dream of mine for some time. I have been a fan of Foxfire for many years since I first…

Bird Droppings October 30, 2019 Walking along the way in my own journey   As I think back over who I am as a teacher and as a person I often wonder as to how I came to be the way I am and why do I take such a differing outlook than so many…

Bird Droppings October 29, 2019 Why would some rather send a photo than write?   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley   In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was Brave…

Bird Droppings October 28, 2019 Having a heart   It is chilly outside but still not bad here in northeast Georgia. The temperatures hanging in low to mid-fifties and going up t near eighty today, still summer.  There is still a week or two till we are off from school for Thanksgiving and fall break.…

Bird Droppings October 26, 2019 Education often draws from NOW   A few years ago, a teacher offered to me a book on curriculum or so she said “Dumbing down of America” by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld. It has been a few months since I picked this book off the shelf while reading various books at…