The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Learning

  • Bird Droppings August 7, 2025 A spiritual side to teaching can have an impact A Rainy Morning in Georgia may be a song title. We had gone almost twenty days with little or no rain, and many areas were in drought conditions, and a hundred miles east, recovering from floods from the last tropical storm.…

  • Where is the passion?

    Bird Droppings August 5, 2025Where is the passion? About eight years ago, I was sitting facing a rising sun, thankful for a new day. A few days passed, and the first sunlight appeared as on many mornings. It was ironic as I was sitting on an overturned five-gallon plastic bucket next to a small circle…

  • Why do we have public education? To educate all our Children.

    Bird Droppings July 30, 2025Why do we have public education? To educate all our Children. For all teachers, over the next few weeks, a new school year. Perhaps today is a day of action. Stand up for what you believe in. I read an article that references children as others yesterday. The way a profiteer…

  • Checking the toes for mittens

    Bird Droppings July 29, 2025 Checking the toes for mittens It has been some time since one of my granddaughters came to me to show off her new hat and mittens. It was quite a sight, clad in a t-shirt, diaper, mittens, and ski cap that looked like a penguin she was showing off for…

  • What do teachers know?

    Bird Droppings July 23, 2025What do teachers know? “Teachers are one of the nation’s most important resources for providing the skills, values, and knowledge that prepare young people for productive citizenship – but more than this, to give sanctuary to their dreams and aspirations for a future of hope, dignity, and justice. It is indeed…

  • Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration.

    Bird Droppings July 15, 2025 Quietly listening to Hot Tuna and pondering the word inspiration. Over twenty years ago, at a county-wide teacher kick-off meeting, traditionally a packaged inspirational meeting and welcome before state and federal budget cuts. This was the startup for the new school year led by a brought-in speaker. They would pay…

  • What do teachers know?

    Bird Droppings July 10, 2025What do teachers know? “Teachers are one of the nation’s most important resources for providing the skills, values, and knowledge that prepare young people for productive citizenship – but more than this, to give sanctuary to their dreams and aspirations for a future of hope, dignity, and justice. It is indeed…

  • Why is experience the greatest teacher?

    Bird Droppings July 7, 2025Why is experience the greatest teacher? “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy What a way to start with a line from a fiction…

  • Maybe we are in the wrong.

    Bird Droppings June 26, 2025Maybe we are in the wrong. “I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men with no right to talk. Too many misinterpretations have been made;…

  • Trying to teach an unteachable child

    Bird Droppings June 20, 2025Trying to teach an unteachable child “Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.” John F. Kennedy As I…