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Only a crazy thought or two
Bird Droppings November 18, 2011 Only a crazy thought or two Occasionally I will get a crazy thought; my students will say occasionally I have a normal thought that would be more like it. They would be insinuating most of my thoughts are crazy. However Today I was driving to school being lazy I slept…
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Finding where community exists
Bird Droppings November 17, 2011 Finding where community exists As I got near the end of my doctorial course work I was involved in a class on educational ethics which featured nine texts all of which have an under lying theme of caring and relationships as a key to education or I should say successful…
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So many thoughts for one day
Bird Droppings November 13, 2011 So many thoughts for one day I believe I was prepared from childhood to discuss this topic. It has been many years since my first introduction to Native Americans. I was three or four years old when I first remember my father’s stories of Little Strong Arm and Black Eagle.…
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High stakes testing and/or inspection does it work?
Bird Droppings November 12, 2011 High Stakes Testing and/or Inspection does it work? I was thinking back this morning to several months of getting ready for a peer review, GAPPS Review. If you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and End of Course tests all about the same time that was…
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Can we add color to a gray world
Bird Droppings November 9, 2011 Can we add color to a gray world In recent days I have been taking brilliant color photos and converting to duotones or simply black and white often with striking results. It was several nights back I had been having a series of vivid dreams or visions some might say.…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 