The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Frank Bird

  • It is the small pieces that seriously matter

    Bird Droppings December 25, 2013 It is the small pieces that seriously matter “Until you can clearly see each piece of the puzzle you will never be able to understand the whole.” Frank Bird, grandfather, teacher and ponderer I am sitting here on Christmas morning 2013 in Between Georgia a long way from my birth…

  • Teach to where the learning will be not to where it is

    Bird Droppings October 17-18, 2011 Teach to where the learning will be not to where it is I took a relaxing weekend with family and grand baby and sort of got my thoughts together as the days went by. Somewhere as the rain dissipated last week we had a few good days of sunshine even…

  • Direction

    Bird Droppings September 5, 2011 Direction Over the past long weekend I worked on several papers, sat in the recliner and dabbled in my yard but I got thinking back to a party in Pennsylvania that was held nearly two years ago as I pondered and walked about. Two years ago on a Saturday night…

  • Translating and communicating

    Bird droppings August 6, 2010 Translating and communicating In about ten days I will have students in my class room again. I will be walking down hall ways and talking with students and teachers and I wonder will anything be different than when I left. I wonder if teachers have studied how to be more…