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Using Calamity as an opening
Bird Droppings June 13, 2011 Using calamity as an opening “Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.” William Davenant I wasn’t sure from where to start today as I have been busy, feeding snakes and animals at the high school, ordering two books for graduate school, spending most of last…
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Keeping the energy flowing
Bird Droppings June 12, 2011 Keeping the energy flowing I attend at least partially two Foxfire courses a year for teachers in Mountain City Georgia. This course is actually a graduate class of Piedmont College’s Education Department. Last night as my son and I made our way back, this was his first experience with Foxfire…
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Is history what happened today or tomorrow?
Bird Droppings June 11, 2011 Is history what happened today or tomorrow? I am sitting on the porch of the Long House at the Foxfire property listening to the rain side of the mountains. Several miles away thunder is brewing and I can smell rain. There have been discussions of history obviously at this place…
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Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering
Bird Droppings June 9, 2011 Thinking, sitting, pondering and recovering I drove to north Georgia on Sunday and Tuesday and have been babysitting Charlie my grand daughter in between. I enjoy the drive up into the mountains always going part of the way on back roads. As I was sitting around yesterday evening my oldest…
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John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bird Droppings June 8, 2011 John Dewey might appreciate Ralph Waldo Emerson It has been a few days since I wrote in the morning perhaps the summer laziness has come upon me although last night it I was sitting and wondering where the loud sound outside the bedroom window was coming from. I got home…
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Annuals or Perennials
Bird Droppings June 7, 2011 Annuals or Perennials “We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” Peter Drucker I have read so many times that education should be about teaching life long learners. Sadly as…
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Driving up a mountain
Bird Droppings June 5, 2011 Driving up a mountain I was looking forward to the trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire property and teachers class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest son was taking the course as a piece of his master’s degree program at Piedmont…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 