The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Henry David Thoreau

  • Teaching is a journey it is not copy, paste or bubble.

    Bird Droppings February 6, 2018 Teaching is a journey it is not copy, paste or bubble.   “To project an image of what Public Education in the US might become in the 21st Century is more to move back and forth between the predictable and the possible.” Maxine Greene, Colombia University, res: Imagining futures: the…

  • Should our children be going to school?

    Bird Droppings February 5, 2018 Should our children be going to school?   I drove to my son’s house to watch and get y grandchildren ready for school and then take them to school. My granddaughter was up early and we talked and she played for a bit on an art app I have on…

  • Listening to a five note flute and thinking about friends

    Bird Droppings February 4, 2018 Listening to a five note flute and thinking about friends   A year ago I was fishing with my grandson at the Atlanta Children’s Museum, when my wife, who I could see with our granddaughter a hundred feet away playing in the moon sand called me. I looked over as…

  • Life is a puzzle falling into place and the inter-connectivity of all that is presents the final image

    Bird Droppings February 3, 2018 Life is a puzzle falling into place and the inter-connectivity of all that is presents the final image   It was a Monday a few years back when my co-teaching partner shared a card with me from one of our students. On the first day of the semester we handed out…

  • Writing for some, seems so difficult in a digital world

    Bird Droppings February 2, 2017 Writing for some, seems so difficult in a digital world   “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldus Huxley   In 1965 I was introduced to this author in a tenth grade English Class. The book was…

  • Being an example is such a simple lesson plan

    Bird Droppings January 31, 2018 Being an example is such a simple lesson plan Early this morning a video was posted on several educators’ social media pages. It was of a seven year old child who had been violent in the class room. It was a general education class room and the child had a…

  • LIFE

    Bird Droppings January 30, 2018 LIFE Morning is a special time a beginning. Several aspects make it special first one of taking the dog out and talking with them as he sniffs and does his thing in the yard. Then I go to my writing and reading which has become my meditation for the day…

  • The fragility of life

    Bird Droppings January 28, 2018 The fragility of life   Early this morning I was awakened a bit early with the pouring down of rain. I also getting old and needed to take a potty break. Hearing what I the rain and a teenager I assume tearing out of our subdivision about two in the…

  • A chill in the air but not in the heart, thank you Maya Angelou

    Bird Droppings January 26, 2018 A chill in the air but not in the heart, thank you Maya Angelou   For several weeks now we have been balancing between warm and cold weather in the early mornings which still is too cold for the crickets and tree frogs who need an ambient temperature a bit…

  • Should we be examining the threads of life?

    Bird Droppings January 25, 2018 Should we be examining the threads of life?   “Man did not weave the web of life he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle, 1854   It has been a few years since I read a National Geographic…