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So many thoughts for one day, including CRT which may or may not be a good topic
Bird Droppings November 3, 2024So many thoughts for one day, including CRT which may or may not be a good topic A Facebook post yesterday caught my attention. The reference was about critical race theory or CRT. How public schools were indoctrinating students and parents should place their children in private schools or home school.…
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The Power of Example goes beyond the curriculum and seeps into life.
Bird Droppings October 30, 2024The Power of Example goes beyond the curriculum and seeps into life. “We taught our children by both example and instruction, but with an emphasis on example, because all learning is a dead language to one who gets it second hand.” Kent Nerburn, The Wisdom of the Native Americans For nearly…
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Foxfire is a name for a fungus glowing in the dark until you wander up Black Rock Mountain in Rabun County, Georgia, and find it is so much more.
Bird Droppings October 29, 2024Foxfire is a name for a fungus glowing in the dark until you wander up Black Rock Mountain in Rabun County, Georgia, and find it is so much more. A few weeks back, I was involved in another synchronous adventure, as I am daily. I have been thinking about it ever since.…
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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…
The daily meanderings of a teacher 