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Searching for integrity or is it a useless endeavor
Bird Droppings October 24, 2024Searching for integrity or is it a useless endeavor “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not…
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Wind in the trees
Bird Droppings October 22, 2024Wind in the trees It has been a number of years since I walked around Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. Geronimo spent the final years of his life there as a prisoner of war. He is buried down by a small river among cottonwood trees looking out over the Oklahoma Prairie.…
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Teaching as improvisational art using learning as the pallet and the teacher’s personality is the brush
Bird Droppings October 22, 2024 Teaching as improvisational art using learning as the pallet and the teacher’s personality is the brush I wrote the basics of this article nearly seventeen years ago and thought of an artist friend, now a computer programmer, trying to define her art and searching for her meaning in life. My…
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Education often draws from NOW.
Bird Droppings October 21, 2024Education often draws from NOW. A few years ago, a teacher offered me a book on curriculum, or she said “Dumbing down of America” by Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld. It has been a few months since I picked this book off the shelf while reading various books at Barnes and Noble, as…
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Can we find answers outside our windows?
Bird Droppings October 20, 2024 Can we find answers outside our windows? It had been a few years since we were at Pawleys Island, SC, when the largest-ever lottery drawing was about to occur. The frenzy of buying a ticket happened at every convenience store and lottery outlet. Just a few weeks ago, a repeat,…
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How we perceive is often the beginning of the discussion.
Bird Droppings October 19, 2024How we perceive is often the beginning of the discussion. I had a thought this morning, and it’s depressing. We are basically training our new teachers in all the things that we, as older teachers, find wrong in education. It hit me as we are teaching all these new teachers how…
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An eclectic morning pondering mortality
Bird Droppings October 19, 2024An eclectic morning pondering mortality I walked out into a clear sky, and stars gleamed above me. The full moon had settled behind the pine trees to the east. My feet got cold yesterday, and I switched to my sketchers for the first time in months from flip-flops. I walked my…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 