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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 