The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings May 20, 2023Is curriculum sacred? My wife and I have been talking about taking a few days hiatus to head to the South Carolina coast with no schedule and little baggage. Just a spur-of-the-moment trip. I was thinking about our last crazy trip, which included a nursery or two, tourist traps, museums, and…

Bird Droppings May 14, 2023 Trying to find a way back to normal, or is it abnormal: Is your child a hippy? “Your son or daughter may be flashing warning signals that he or she will soon drop out of society and join the “hippie” movement. If you know what to look for, you may be…

Bird Droppings May 8, 2023I am pondering and researching education while remembering a waterfall. It has been eleven years since I stayed at the Sylvan Mills Bed and Breakfast in a room over a waterfall. I went up to North Georgia to recharge; perhaps another word might be to rekindle my passion for education and…

Bird Droppings May 2, 2023My friend Trooper, pondering, remembering, and digesting the stories I was testing today for nearly four hours, and sitting quietly makes you think, remember, and ponder. Fifty years ago, I was a student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia; I had moved south only a few months before from Pennsylvania. Macon…

Bird Droppings April 23, 2023 Eating some leftover chicken parmesan and thinking about the circle of life I made a huge pan of chicken parmesan a couple of days ago and had plenty of leftovers. So I am sitting at my computer working on my Birddroppings and dissertation, eating some. Several things have led me…

Bird Droppings April 22, 2023Can we find Truth in an untruthful world? For the third or fourth time, I reread a book titled; Every Day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women by the late Wilma Mankiller. Mankiller was the past Chief of The Cherokee Nation and a Native American Activist, author, lecturer,…

Bird Droppings April 18, 2023 Making a difference each day “Dialogue is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing. As I read a…

Bird Droppings April 17, 2023I’m not too fond of shopping, but I like Kroger About eight years back, I spent nearly a week using ice packs as heat extractors for my computer until getting the fan fixed. It was interesting. Two similar thoughts came to me this morning as I started the day out. One…

Bird Droppings April 9, 2023Ethics and Politics So many things are happening in our world that are often whims of a politician we voted for or, in my case, against. Industry is being remade, wars are being fought, jobs are appearing and disappearing, and health care reform is possibly off and on the table. We…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2023I am pondering ABNANBNANBNANBNANBNANBC or antecedent behavior, new antecedent, new behavior, etc. Last night I reviewed some notes from one of my numerous posts on my various blog sites and graduate school comments. I had been reading from a paper on a program developed in the mid-1980s in California. The program…