The daily meanderings of a teacher

A journal from a teacher

What is the Holy Grail (solution/answer) in education?

Bird Droppings August 8, 2017 What is the Holy Grail (solution/answer) in education? “Obsessive search for the holy grail through only that which can be measured and documented effectively diminishes the sacred and leaves us standing empty without souls.” Dr. Grant Bennett A day or two ago I got a bit carried away…

August 8, 2017
Can we find answers outside our windows?

Bird Droppings August 7, 2017 Can we find answers outside our windows? As I read and pondered a world engrossed with money and how we can spend money. I wonder if perhaps some of the thinking that is bringing so many American Indians back to their more traditional world views has merit. I was…

August 7, 2017
Should children be left behind?

Bird Droppings August 4, 2017 Should children be left behind? “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds…

August 4, 2017
Do we teach or are we taught

Bird Droppings August 3, 2017 Do we teach or are we taught “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein “We as teachers should be the catalyst not the solution.” Frank Bird Ed.S. D.D. So many times when discussing students who are having difficult times an individual teacher’s perspective is…

August 3, 2017
Why is it hard to think about compassion?

Bird Dropping August 1, 2017 Why is it hard to think about compassion? Almost five years ago I was quietly sitting in a hotel room in South Carolina it was still dark outside and it was odd not being at school on a Friday. I so seldom miss a day of school. My middle…

August 1, 2017
How capable do we need to be?

Bird Droppings July 31, 2017 How capable do we need to be? What a contrast to only a few days ago listening to the gulf of Mexico, the moon is coming back smiling at me as I went out in the wee hours with a crystal clear sky. There was a gentle wind blowing,…

July 31, 2017
Truly doing is the best teacher.

Bird Droppings July 30, 2017 Truly doing is the best teacher. It has been an interesting week. We started with a short visit to Southern Pines NC, next we headed to the Atlantic Ocean and Pawley’s Island for a couple days and finally south to Sanibel Island on the Gulf Coast. I spent a…

July 30, 2017
Doing is the best teacher

Bird Droppings July 27, 2017 Doing is the best teacher It has been an interesting week. We traveled from Georgia through South and North Carolina into Florida. I spent a good bit of the mornings and evenings taking advantage of weather and light and getting some rather interesting photographs. I was able to get…

July 27, 2017
What do we miss?

Bird Droppings July 26, 2017 What do we miss? All Along the Watchtower There must be some way out of here, Said the joker to the thief, There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief. Businessmen, they drink my wine, Plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line Know what…

July 26, 2017
Should we even consider ignorance a part of the journey?

Bird Droppings July 25, 2017 Should we even consider ignorance a part of the journey? “If I want to justify my existence, and continue to be obsessed with the notion that I’ve got to do something for humanity — well, teaching ought to quell that obsession — and if I can ever get around…

July 25, 2017