The daily meanderings of a teacher

A journal from a teacher

Can we be about healing?

Bird Droppings May 8, 2018 Can we be about healing? I came out earlier today into the darkness and the first thing I heard was a bullfrog off in the distance calling that’s the first one of the year. As I listened I heard more I heard many birds starting to chirp, whistle and…

May 8, 2018
Can we discuss curriculum as sacred?

Bird Droppings May 7, 2018 Can we discuss curriculum as sacred? My wife and I are have been talking about how we have so many stories and pieces to our life’s puzzles that may be of interest one day to our children and grand kids. We drove nearly eleven hours together Saturday and continued…

May 7, 2018
Why do children do what they do?

Bird Droppings May 4, 2018 Why do children do what they do? “Our task is to make our children into disciples of the good life, by our own actions toward them and toward other people. This is the only effective discipline in the long run. But it is more arduous, and takes longer, than…

May 4, 2018
Every day a new journey begins

Bird Droppings May 3, 2018 Every day a new journey begins “School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.” Ivan Illich,…

May 3, 2018
Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls

Bird Droppings May 2, 2018 Pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfalls My morning often consist of wandering around taking pictures at sunrise if weather permits. Today was no exception. When I returned to the house I went to my back porch and as I do on many days lit some sage and…

May 2, 2018
Pondering, remembering and digesting the stories

Bird Droppings May 1, 2018 Pondering, remembering and digesting the stories Forty five years ago I was a student at Mercer University in Macon Georgia. I had moved south only a few months before from Pennsylvania. Macon was new to me and I will admit I was a bit naive at the time. In…

May 1, 2018
It is not always all in a name

Bird Droppings April 30, 2018 It is not always all in a name On February 3, 2003, I officially started calling daily emailing and journaling Bird Droppings. I went back in my files and pulled up a few old thoughts and ideas. Along with my new name in 2003 some other bits and pieces…

April 30, 2018
Driving up a mountain takes considerable effort

Bird Droppings April 29, 2018 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 it was the site of the Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest…

April 29, 2018
Why not just imagine?

Bird Droppings April 28, 2018 Why not just imagine? Some days I wonder if adults I know have ever imagined even considered imagination. For example have you ever lain on your back watching clouds trying to determine if this one is a dragon or a whale? I was driving home from Georgia Tech with…

April 28, 2018
Is it passion or just obsession?

Bird Droppings April 27, 2018 Is it passion or just obsession? “All games have an important and probably decisive influence on the destinies of the players under ordinary social conditions; but some offer more opportunities than others for life long careers and are more likely to involve innocent bystanders.” Dr. Eric Berne, The games people…

April 27, 2018