The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Foxfire

  • High stakes testing and/or inspection does it work?

    Bird Droppings November 12, 2011 High Stakes Testing and/or Inspection does it work? I was thinking back this morning to several months of getting ready for a peer review, GAPPS Review. If you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and End of Course tests all about the same time that was…

  • Gratitude is action as well as words

    Bird Droppings November 11, 2011 Gratitude is action as well as words Most mornings I am driving to school about four thirty or so in the morning but today with Veterans Day as a holiday I got to relax till maybe five or so. Today my wife had scheduled a medical procedure and we were…

  • Sometimes we can offer a sigh of relief

    Bird Droppings November 10, 2011 Sometimes we can offer a sigh of relief “It is about learning not about teaching.” Dr. Max Thompson A semester is nearing the end and my daily journey for this semester will end. But it is a relief in some ways. While I have really enjoyed the classes, students and…

  • Can we add color to a gray world

    Bird Droppings November 9, 2011 Can we add color to a gray world In recent days I have been taking brilliant color photos and converting to duotones or simply black and white often with striking results. It was several nights back I had been having a series of vivid dreams or visions some might say.…

  • A path to the top

    Bird Droppings November 8, 2011 A path to the top Sitting in my kitchen I was too lazy to take my computer upstairs this weekend and got listening to a great horned owl calling outside. For several days I have been slowed down by a respiratory infection and literally spent most of the past few…

  • Interconnected

    Bird Droppings November 7, 2011 Interconnected “I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.” Coleman Cox Over the past eleven years I have attended maybe thousands of sporting and or other school events. Some were entertaining and other exciting as students that I knew…

  • 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu

    Bird Droppings November 4, 2011 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu I began the day thinking back to a song one of my students chose to write about several years ago, Live like you were dying by Tim McGraw. The assignment was to pick a favorite song and find the lyrics then explain…

  • Having a heart

    Bird Droppings October 26, 2011 Having a heart It is chilly out in northeast Georgia with evening temperatures still hanging in the high forties or low fifties but rumor of a near frost hanging out there has most of us gardeners bringing plants in. We have still a couple weeks till we are off from…

  • An eceltic morning

    Bird Droppings October 24, 2011 An eclectic morning Over the past week of vacation I was discussing with several friends, The DaVinci Code and other philosophical diversions and fearing death as a basis for religion came up somehow. “Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die…

  • Teachers are born not made

    Bird Droppings October 22, 2011 Teachers are born not made I started this endeavor yesterday and got a bit side tracked with my granddaughter and came back to it this chilly morning. I walked out of the house and few crickets were calling as they do in the warmer weather during the summer. It was…