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The daily meanderings of a teacher

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A journal from a teacher

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  • Our teaching can make a difference every day

    Bird Droppings March 9, 2022Our teaching can make a difference every day I recall one day that I was looking through data as I sat through a special education training session. This is an exciting situation. I was reviewing data from a recent benchmark test in biology. It is an extremely poorly made and designed…

    March 9, 2022
  • Can we teach a love of learning again?

    Bird Droppings March 8, 2022Can we teach a love of learning again? This has been a perplexing time of my life out of the classroom, giving advice here and there to fellow teachers, parents, and students. I recall a car wreck in which a young man died, and his passenger, a good friend of my…

    March 8, 2022
  • Religion is what you make of it

    Bird Droppings March 7, 2022Religion is what you make of it “A poor devotee points to the sky and says, ‘God is up there.’ An average devotee says, ‘God dwells in the heart as the Inner Master.’ The best devotee says, ‘God alone is, and everything I perceive is a form of God.’” Ramakrishna Ramakrishna…

    March 7, 2022
  • Teachers! We should always be near the edge.

    Bird Droppings March 4, 2022Teachers! We should always be near the edge. I remember taking groups hiking in North Georgia, and always there is that one person who has to be at the edge of a gorge or edge of the trail, dropping two hundred feet down, looking over, and nearly falling. A few summers…

    March 4, 2022
  • We need LOVE

    Bird Droppings March 2, 2022We need LOVE Sometimes we so easily use the word love. It gets used daily by many folks, yet do we truly have any conception of what we speak. I was just in a conversation, and the word love came up, and I responded that we each have our understanding and…

    March 2, 2022
  • I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform.” I find the answer is simple, CARING.

    Bird Droppings March 1, 2022I am pondering about Dr. Carl G. Jung and “school reform.” I find the answer is simple, CARING. “If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” Carl G. Jung…

    March 1, 2022
  • Example

    Bird Droppings February 28, 2022Example “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 fifteen years, I have looked to the wisdom contained in Nerburn’s…

    February 28, 2022
  • All of life is connected and intertwined.

    Bird Droppings February 27, 2022All of life is connected and intertwined. “In all likelihood, one is in the past while in the present. The present is then veiled; the past is manifest and apparent. However, so transparently present that is veiled., and one assumes oneself to be in the present when one is not. To…

    February 27, 2022
  • A series of paradoxes and bewilderment

    Bird Droppings February 25, 2022A series of paradoxes and bewilderment I received the following in an email back a few days, a friend of mine sent it out and as I read the first time it was humorous. However as I pondered then as a teacher I read deeper into what was being said. I…

    February 25, 2022
  • Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand

    Bird Droppings February 24, 2022 Glistening of wisdom on a gossamer strand Many years ago, I was sitting alongside a fence in a field far away from houses and people, and I watched a spider spin a web. We see webs all around, and I read there are thousands of spiders per acre in any…

    February 24, 2022
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