The daily meanderings of a teacher

Bird Droppings October 24, 2021 Have we sold our souls for a few trinkets? Morning is a special time for me, always a new beginning. Today I went out a bit early from the house to take out the garbage and just stand in the silence for a moment. As I drove from the house…

Bird Droppings October 22, 2021 Can we find answers outside our windows? It has been a few years since the largest ever lottery drawing and the frenzy of buying a ticket which was crazy. While in SC, my wife and I got a Powerball ticket seems we got thinking, hey, we win, we could buy…

Bird Droppings October 21, 2021Wondering why on a Thursday morning I watched the debate roughly a year ago from our condo on Pawleys Island. My wife and I escaped for a long weekend. It was to give her a break from a hectic clinic schedule and me from the solitude of being retired. We went…

Bird Droppings October 20, 2021Trying to find where community exists In my doctoral course work, I was in a class on educational communities that featured all total in the two courses’ fifteen texts. The texts have an underlying theme of caring and relationships as a key to education or successful teaching. One of the books…

Bird Droppings October 19, 2021An eclectic morning I walked out into a clear sky, and stars gleamed above me. The full moon had settled behind the pine trees to the west. My feet got cold, walking about in flip flops. I walked my wife to her car and decided to lay back down for a…

Bird Droppings October 18, 2021 What is that piece you cannot teach teachers? “Studies suggest that instructional and management processes are key to effectiveness, but many interview and survey responses about effective teaching emphasize the teacher’s affective characteristics, or social and emotional behaviors, more than pedagogical practice.” James H. Stronge, Qualities of Effective Teachers I…

Bird Droppings October 15, 2021 Within the circle of life, a new life coming I will be wanding many miles over the next few days since my wife, and I will be taking a trip to the North Georgia Mountains. We will be stopping at several farmer’s markets. We will be looking for a few…

Bird Droppings October 14, 2021Words not spoken are some of the most profound wisdom I have been sitting writing and working on my dissertation for six hours. Words are on my mind right now. I just commented on a Facebook post about learning languages and knowing enough in several languages to survive and order chicken…

Bird Droppings October 12, 2021Walking along the way in my journey I walked nearly twice as far today as I did yesterday. I am trying to build up my endurance. As I think back over who I am as a teacher and person, I often wonder how I came to be the way I am…

Bird Droppings October 13, 2021What about adding to our current reality TV: The great teachers of America? I am back in grad school and today working on writing. A time ago, I had been set up to teach several new college classes when I received notification of a reduction in force just before I started on…