Bird Droppings April 14, 2013 Is a circle a confined space or infinite undertaking? Does a circle have a beginning and or an end? As learning begins often with a question so today a start and a beginning to my writing and thinking with a question. Many of the philosophies of life use comparisons to…

Bird Droppings April 12, 2013 A rock flower and song A journey begins with a step and apathy begins with turning your back and saying I don’t care. Yesterday afternoon my I had my last IEP of the year. I recall another afternoon when my laptop was acting weirder than normal and all of my…

Bird Droppings April 11, 2013 Going to school early in the day So often as I start my writings each morning there has been an experience recently to build upon. It is utilizing these previous experiences that provide windows and doors into future experiences. Several weeks ago I was driving through our small town and…

Bird Droppings April 10, 2013 The journey starts here now “Who, then, shall conduct education so that humanity may improve?” John Dewey A very deep and broad question, I was thinking back to my own community and associations. We elect school board members who hire teachers and principals, they decide on schools to build and…

Bird Droppings April 9, 2013 How could it be neither wolf nor dog? It has been sometime since I first read the book Neither Wolf nor Dog, which happens to have been written by one of my favorite authors Kent Nerburn. Listening to political gibberish and sitting watching twitter comments through indigenous news casts the…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2013 Is it a habit or routine? “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and readily at…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2013 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 5, 2013 Potential is only that unless it is acted upon “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly and…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2013 While I detest shopping I really like Kroger Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the day out. One I heard on the radio going to get gas for my wife a country music radio announcer recalling an old George W. Bush quote, and the…

Bird Droppings April 3, 2013 Pondering ABABABABABAB Last night I went back over some notes from one of my numerous posts in my various blog sites and graduate school notes. I had been reading from a paper on a program that was developed in the mid 1980’s in California. The program with one teacher in…