The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings February 19, 2014 Wet and dreary as I ponder educational genocide and or NCLB, Norming, Children, 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 a slight rain, dripping from the branches…

Bird Droppings February 18, 2014 How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky? I started to practice getting up early yesterday since we get started back to school today. I went outside and sat listening to the sounds of morning and started my wife’s car to warm it up…

Bird Droppings February 17, 2014 Thinking about the word trust and how we can not “The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now…

Bird Droppings February 16, 2014 Teaching is a journey not copy and paste or bubble. It has been several days well over a week since I had a chance to go out early and ponder as I say. It has been many days since I took a photograph with my good camera since I left…

Bird Droppings February 14, 2014 Windows can be difficult to find especially on Valentine’s Day I woke up very early today as my dog was barking to go out. I walked out on my back porch only to catch a glimpse of the moon sliding behind the tree line; a sliver moon was slipping below…

Bird Droppings February 13, 2014 Try not to be a waste of time and read some Emerson “For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the most precious things we have is time. As our lives go by we tend to waste more…

Bird Droppings February 11, 2014 Is there room for politics when people are hurting? Earlier in the morning as I went out after reading a friends note on acclimating to the cold I was standing outside pondering the day ahead in my shorts and t-shirt and it hit me I was freezing my butt off,…

Bird Droppings February 11, 2014 Why should our children be going to school? After reading Joel Spring’s book, Political Agendas for Education, one might wonder why we even have schools. Spring’s implies they are simply to create and mold youth into whatever it is those in power deem feasible. His idea is that it is…

Bird Droppings February 10, 2014 Listening to a five note flute “The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the…

Bird Droppings February 9, 2014 I was listening to the stillness of a morning with no sunrise and or sometimes we need a window and not a mirror. I was sitting alone this morning as I do on weekend mornings trying to get a few photos of the sunrise. The ambient temperature is still a…