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…

Bird Droppings April 2, 2013 Listening for nature’s call Lately as I venture out in the wee hours of the morning whippoorwills are calling. It has been a few years since I heard them with such regularity. They seem to start after midnight and go till nearly dawn. Close to the house is a dense…

Bird Droppings April 1, 2013 A song in and of the morning There is a time each day when the birds’ first start singing it is generally just before the sun begins to come up. First one and then another start in and soon birds can be heard throughout the trees. I stood trying to…

Bird Droppings March 31, 2013 Seeking Perfection midst the mud “I have found there are those who can write and speak fluently and yet do not have anything to say and then there are those who have something to say who may not be so fluent. The big question is who do, you listen too?”…

Bird Droppings March 29, 2013 Can we really find answers? Several years ago I would have said there were answers to almost any question that could be asked. Today sitting here I wonder granted first you have to ask what is the question or questions but I have a different attitude now sort of one…

Bird Droppings March 28, 2013 A morning meandering while the moon sets As I read through several old emails of my former doctorate and graduate cohort folks as they some are defending their dissertations in the coming weeks. In another set of emails from an article review several commented on how these particular readings provided…

Bird Droppings March 27, 2013 Progressive versus traditional teachers In a ninth grade literature class that I happen to co-teach in I was introduced to the Freedom Writers Diary and the film based on the book. In some ways the story is similar to the story of Foxfire. Erin Gruell a first year brand new…

Bird Droppings March 26, 2013 The sacredness of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari I have known about Foxfire for nearly forty years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1973 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to teaching and…

Bird Droppings March 25, 2013 I wonder if we see each piece of the puzzle? Officially spring is here and around here daffodils are finishing up and most flowering trees are near full bloom which of course in Georgia means voracious amounts of pine pollen, everything will be soon yellow between rains. While cloudy this…

Bird Droppings March 23, 2013 The beginning or end in a circle is where? “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” Albert Einstein Over…