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Reading your view sometimes offers a clue
Bird Droppings December 26, 2024Reading your view sometimes offers a clue After forty-six years of marriage, it seems almost like day one. Every day and each day keeps getting better. Periodically, over the past years, I received at some odd hour of the night and or morning a paper to review for my youngest son…
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Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers?
Bird Droppings December 23, 2024 Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers? A few years back, in a ninth-grade literature class that I happened to be co-teaching, I was introduced to the book Freedom Writers Diary. We also watched the film based on the book. In some ways, the story is similar to…
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Mountains offer a clearer view.
Bird Droppings December 21, 2024Mountains offer a clearer view. “I have a pretty fair education, but I would hate to be turned loose in these mountains right now and be told to put food in my belly, clothing on my body, shelter over my head, and provide protection from my enemies, both two-footed and four-footed…
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It is the small pieces that seriously matter, not how many presents
Bird Droppings December 20, 2024It is the small pieces that seriously matter, not how many presents I was driving around and reading a holiday post or two. One caught my attention, arguing the idea of Santa’s gifts. Santa is first a legend contrived over the years and developed sadly to be more of a marketing…
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How do we know if we are still human?
Bird Droppings December 18, 2024How do we know if we are still human? About four years ago, I was listening to the news about the activities at the nation’s capital that many called an insurrection; I wondered, as people were interviewed and ideas were tossed around, are we all human? It seems some in Congress…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 