The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings November 6, 2021I am constantly finding where community exists I am sitting listening to the Allman Brother’s Fillmore East on a cold Saturday morning. After a few days of sunshine and cool fall, weather rain is coming in, changing the temperature. As I drove to the corner store yesterday, I had several thoughts…

Bird Droppings November 5, 2021Reconciling the importance of the present, past, and future I spent the better part of yesterday avoiding my direction, so intent on the moment, I missed the past and future cues. As an empathetic human being, I get caught up at times in the emotions and feedback of the present. I…

Bird Droppings November 4, 2021It is a new day, a new start, and always day one I am feeling old today; now that I am working on my seventieth third year of life and a cold front is coming in, my bones are aching. I remember nearly fifteen years ago, as we got closer to…

Bird Droppings November 3, 2021 Teaching is constantly climbing up another rung I had a rough night sleeping, having stayed up watching election results. I was planning on writing this morning. I got seriously caught up in election news. I had a few ideas for my dissertation I would like to have completed by tomorrow.…

Bird Droppings November 2, 2021I still like the seagull book As I get older and I feel old today, seventy-two years and a day old. Many years ago, as I drove my kids to school each morning I would spin yarns of various Indian tribes and of Great Grandpa Niper. Some were stories told to…

Bird Droppings November 1, 2021Education is turning an ugly face jug not pouring in a mold I was sitting waiting for my grandkids to finish up facetime for my birthday. I was sitting on my back porch eating breakfast, sipping a cup of tea, and my grandson’s face popped up on my phone. My grandkids…

Bird Droppings October 31, 2021There may be side roads in life more of the Journey I wandered about a bit yesterday morning, running grand kids home and trying to get caught up on a few things. As I went from one errand to the next a Barnes and Noble bookstore was in my way conveniently…

Bird Droppings October 28, 2021Can we change things? “Therefore the shortage of effective teachers is not a problem that can be solved by a new structure. It is caused by how we train and manage teachers, and can only be solved by improving the way we do this, no matter what the structure of the…

Bird Droppings October 26, 2021Education often draws from NOW A few years ago, a teacher offered to me a book on curriculum or so 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…

Bird Droppings October 25, 2021Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk if you listen. Trouble is, white people, don’t listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians, so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to other voices in nature.…