The daily meanderings of a teacher

A journal from a teacher

Going to school again for the first time

Bird Droppings March 12, 2018 Going to school again for the first time So often as I start my writings each morning there has been an experience recently to build upon. It is utilizing these previous experiences that provide windows and doors into future experiences. I was driving through our town and a shop I…

March 12, 2018
Using pronouns to cover up

Bird Droppings March 9, 2018 Using pronouns to cover up My mornings used to consist of a trip to Quick Trip to get unsweet tea and fill my thermal cup with ice. Today was different and as I drove toward QT I by chance caught a blur on the road, some movement in my…

March 9, 2018
Should I be a wolf or dog in education?

Bird Droppings March 7, 2018 Should I be a wolf or dog in education? In light of watching current news and political turmoil I recalled a trip to the Atlanta Zoo. I was approached as I walked up the hill at the Zoo by an elderly man. I had never met this man previously…

March 7, 2018
Teaching can make a difference each day

Bird Droppings March 6, 2018 Teaching can make 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.…

March 6, 2018
Potential is only that unless it is acted upon

Bird Droppings March 5, 2018 Potential is only that unless it is acted upon “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly…

March 5, 2018
Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?

Bird Droppings March 4, 2018 Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers? This is perhaps a loaded question in lieu of today’s educational climate. Watching the news and the major effort under way to dismantle public schools through vouchers, “school choice” and other means we need to look at what we want…

March 4, 2018
Puzzle’s always are missing a piece

Bird Droppings March 2, 2018 Puzzle’s always are missing a piece Shell Silverstein tells and has written a great story of the missing piece. A pie shaped piece of a circle is all alone looking for its circle to be whole. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what…

March 2, 2018
I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING.

Bird Droppings March 1, 2018 I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform”. I find the answer is simple, CARING. “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” Carl…

March 1, 2018
A morning meandering while the moon is glowing

Bird Droppings February 28, 2018 A morning meandering while the moon is glowing Later today I will be tutoring a student trying to get caught up and return to public school. My first thing this morning was reading through several old emails from my doctorate and graduate cohort friends as some are defending their dissertations…

February 28, 2018
Wet and dreary as I ponder educational genocide and or NCLB, norming children, only leaves the best

Bird Droppings February 27, 2018 Wet and dreary as I ponder educational genocide and or NCLB, norming children, only leaves the best I was huddled in my blanket as I went outside to sit and think a bit earlier granted I was barefooted. The air was still except for some dripping still from yesterday’s…

February 27, 2018