The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Education

  • Is synchronicity a focal point on the pathway during our life experiences?

    Bird Droppings September 24, 2025 Is synchronicity a focal point on the pathway during our life experiences? Every morning, if possible, I look for a sunrise, driving out or walking depending on where I am at the time. In the past ten years, I have only missed a few. Today, the sky was beautiful, and…

  • Should children be left behind, or do we need a supply of energy drinks in the teachers’ lounge?

    Bird Droppings September 18, 2025 Should children be left behind, or do we need a supply of energy drinks in the teachers’ lounge? “I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall…

  • Why are we deliberately wrong in education so often?

    Bird Droppings September 8, 2025 Why are we deliberately wrong in education so often? I stopped playing the lottery nearly five years ago, except for Powerball, which two folks stole from me over the weekend. I was supposed to win 1.8 billion dollars. I will admit that I was pondering retiring with that Powerball jackpot.…

  • It is about understanding

    Bird Droppings August 31, 2025 It is about understanding I started back to school, and it has been a struggle getting a pace set for three classes and then doing an internship as well. One of my classes is a reading diagnostic class, and the subject of decoding, but not understanding, came up. I read…

  • Being reborn so often takes a religious twist. I see it as listening with the heart.

    Bird Droppings August 29, 2025 Being reborn so often takes a religious twist. I see it as listening with the heart. So often in life, we hear words, rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion, and then logically state a response. I returned to a conversation discussing existentialism with my granddaughter one night nearly eleven years…

  • Doing what you love is not really work.

    Bird Droppings August 25, 2025Doing what you love is not really work. “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham It seems I learn something every day as I wander about the internet and the books I find along the way. My life’s journey over…

  • Why do we have public education? So we can educate all our Children.

    Bird Droppings August 23, 2025Why do we have public education? So we can educate all our Children. For all teachers, today is a day of action. Stand up for what you believe in. I read an article that references children simply as others yesterday. The way a profiteer looks at children is as entities, simply…

  • Driving up a mountain takes effort

    Bird Droppings August 22, 2025Driving up a mountain takes effort. I am looking forward to another trip to Black Rock Mountain in North Georgia, the site of the Foxfire Museum property and the former site of Piedmont College’s teacher’s class in The Foxfire Approach to teaching. My oldest son took the course as part of…

  • What do teachers know?

    Bird Droppings August 20, 2025What do teachers know? Teachers are one of the nation’s most important resources for providing the skills, values, and knowledge that prepare young people for productive citizenship – but more than this, to give sanctuary to their dreams and aspirations for a future of hope, dignity, and justice. It is indeed…

  • Being reborn is listening and seeing with our heart.

    Bird Droppings August 13, 2025 Being reborn is listening and seeing with our heart. So often in life, we hear words, rationalize those utterances, develop an opinion, and then logically state a response. I returned to a conversation discussing existentialism with my granddaughter one night nearly twelve years ago as she cooed and babbled, trying…