The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings July 24, 2013 Why is experience the greatest teacher? “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy What a way to start with a line from a…

Bird Droppings July 22, 2013 Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk if you listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to other voices in…

Bird Droppings July 22, 2013 Is it a paradox that sometimes small can be big? “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Laura Ingalls Wilder It seems like yesterday that I was looking at some power point slides as we waited…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2013 Why is it so hard listening to a child? It has been some time since I was sitting in my class room when a friend came by with her baby brother about six weeks old at the time. There is something about newborns that is so special as she left…

Bird Droppings July 19, 2013 Let us change NCLB to OCAT today! I woke up like most other days and as you get older each day is a prize and for some reason sat at my computer pondering much longer than normal. I was looking at some comments and reviewing a post I had made…

Bird Droppings July 18, 2013 Is doing what you love really work? “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham After thirty plus days of rain yesterday a sunrise and no clouds or fog cover. That made for a great start to my day. I…

Bird Droppings July 16, 2013 How do we know on a cloudy day if the moon is setting or the sun is rising? I left the house relatively early to get gas for my wives car and since staying at home today to work on graduate school papers a bottle of grapefruit cranberry juice. My…

Bird Droppings July 14, 2013 High Stakes Testing and or inspection does it work? About five years back we spent several months getting ready for a peer review, actually it is called a GAPPS Review. About the same time you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and End of Course tests…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2013 Can I teach myself or am I even allowed? “There is then, nothing final about a logical rendering of experience. Its value is not contained in itself; its significance is that of standpoint, outlook, and method. It intervenes between the more casual, tentative, and roundabout experiences of the past, and…