The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 23, 2013 We should many times question our questions? Sitting in my class room after a week of articles and innuendos about who and why Georgia students in high school and middle schools across the state do so poorly on certain CRCT’s and EOCT’s which are Georgia’s version of grade or course…

Bird Droppings May 22, 2013 Sometimes small is many times BIG? I am sitting in the quiet of the high school pondering, thinking, reflecting and writing while listening to the Traveling Wilibury’s Volume one. Yesterday I spent some time as I do every day with my granddaughter. I find it amazing how a conversation with…

Bird Droppings May 21, 2013 Can we 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 my son…

Bird Droppings May 20, 2013 Would it not be a great addition to reality TV, The next great teacher? I was sitting mesmerized by the night sounds when the kitchen door opened and my son poked his head out wondering what I was doing. I was not in the mood for TV and the sounds…

Bird Droppings May 19, 2013 Life is about practice On a wet cloudy and stormy Sunday morning in Georgia with a high school graduation only a few hours previous I am thinking ahead. I often wonder at how to tell graduating seniors to ponder and think about the future. How do you build upon what…

Bird Droppings May 17, 2013 It seems to be a new morning? Last night I had my son drive up to the corner store to get a few things. When he I had been waiting outside and the sounds of the evening were stilled from the chill all the humming, whistling, chirping and barking that…

Bird Droppings May 16, 2013 Reading a friend’s book a fifth time I was so tired when I laid down last night after driving around doing errands, working in the yard, working in my gardens, and attempting to get into my reading and writing. My youngest son is waiting to hear on a nursing program…

Bird Droppings May 15, 2013 Can we seek balance while walking on a see saw? “An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Henry David Thoreau I walked in my room at school yesterday and missed my stuffed eland on the wall; the largest African antelope was removed when I moved to a…

Bird Droppings May 14, 2013 How hard it is to find the trail in the search for knowledge? “All things in the world are two. In our minds we are two, good and evil. With our eyes we see two things, things that are fair and things that are ugly…. We have the right hand…