The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Frank Bird III

  • Sharpen the machete or bring a shovel

    Bird Droppings August 13, 2011 Sharpen the machete or bring a shovel “When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.” Anthony J. D’Angelo Always in the movies with a jungle setting the leader has a machete and hacks away at the growth making the way clear for the group…

  • Filtering into bottles

    Bird Droppings August 10, 2011 Filtering into bottles Starting back to school again today and sitting here on day one and thinking back. I remember how hard I was hit by the impact of No Child Left Behind so many years ago. I was testing or reading a test to students who within their IEP’s…

  • Children learn what they live and see

    Bird Droppings August 9, 2011 Children learn what they live and See I was sitting in my room at school last night from three till nearly seven for our annual open house and talking with various parents and students that came by. Several made comments about how their child loved my class and my ego…

  • trying to understand

    Bird Droppings August 8, 2011 Trying to understand As I went to school and such today it seemed a part of me was left home. I generally start each morning with writing, this has been a very relaxing part of my day and as I got up to start I was sort of out of…

  • Imagination a key to another level of thought

    Bird Droppings August 7, 2011 Imagination a key to another level of thought “You can take a course in child development and think you’re prepared for parenthood, but until you have a child of your own, what you’ve been taught doesn’t mean a thing to you. So it come to our old teaching: Never claim…

  • Sailing off the edge and or thinking outside the box

    Bird Droppings August 6, 2011 Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of a box “I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family or nation, but…

  • Honesty as Policy

    Bird droppings August 5, 2011 Honesty as Policy I walked out to a very still and quiet morning around two thirty this morning. Being my official first day back to school (work) I looked for a smiling moon sort of a good luck charm to no avail. I would use this reference to a moon…

  • Walking and Listening among the Cotton Woods

    Bird Droppings August 4, 2011 Walking and listening among the Cotton Woods I walked outside earlier as I took our infamous dog Lil Girl out for her morning constitutional. The sky was overcast this morning with a mist of rain falling and wisps of fog scattered about on the warm earth were visible. Over the…

  • What do we miss?

    Bird Droppings August 3, 2011 What do we miss? All Along the Watchtower There must be some way out of here, Said the joker to the thief, There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief. Businessmen, they drink my wine, Plowmen dig my earth, None of them along the line Know what any of…

  • JOY!

    Bird Droppings August 2, 2011 JOY! When I walk out in the dark of the morning on a clear day the pines to my left seem nearly black. I joke they would be a good setting for a horror film. The trees form a wall of pine. They were planted so close you literally cannot…