The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: book-review

  • Bird Droppings May 31, 2026 A chill in the air but not in the heart; thank you, Maya Angelou. For several days now, we have been balancing between warm and cool weather in the early mornings, which, on some mornings, is too cold for the crickets and tree frogs who need an ambient temperature a…

  • So many thoughts for one day, including CRT, which may or may not be a good topic

    Bird Droppings May 3, 2026So 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 to critical race theory (CRT). How public schools were indoctrinating students, and parents should place their children in private schools or homeschools. I responded…

  • The inability of surmounting learning difficulties

    Bird Droppings March 9, 2025The inability of surmounting learning difficulties I will borrow from old droppings and share them again when the message is important to me. In one of my last IEP meetings, my student was reaffirmed, yes, you do have a deficit in math according to state testing.  However, choosing not to do…

  • Can you give it one more try?

    Bird Droppings December 29, 2024Can you give it one more try? “You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.” Satchel Paige is often attributed to J. Askenberg In my high school teaching days, teachers at my school judged seasons by testing season, not weather.…