Bird Droppings August 5, 2013 Is not wondering is a powerful tool? Several years back we started sort of a school wide vocabulary of the week and with today being the first day of teachers going back to school I was reminded of this as I was looking through my various files for quotes and…

Bird Droppings August 4, 2013 Don’t cross word puzzles take some time? Towards the end of the last school year one of my students was working on a history assignment and had to define bias. She was not sure which definition was correct and asked my opinion. I explained in history bias is that of…

Bird Droppings August 2, 2013 Why do more? “Choices are sacred to life’s journey. They lie along the path that all of us must follow for ourselves. An important Cherokee lesson is that if you involve yourself in any decision, you also experience the consequences of that decision.” Dr. J.T. Garrett, Meditations with the Cherokee…

Bird Droppings August 1, 2013 Is doing the best teacher? It has been an interesting week. I did my usual going into school and working in my room. I spent a good bit of the mornings taking advantage of weather and light and getting some rather interesting photographs. Later yesterday afternoon after almost fifteen hours…

Bird Droppings July 31, 2013 Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum Or Can I get a nickels worth of cheese There is something about the first light on a summer’s morning. It could be about trying to discern how many different birds are singing and calling back and forth as they are waking up. It…

Bird Droppings July 30, 2013 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…

Bird Droppings July 29, 2013 Listening to a chorus of Frogs, Crickets and an occasional owl “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd Most every night and early morning when I walk about especially early in the morning I am listening to the choral arrangement of tree frogs, crickets, whippoorwills…

Bird Droppings July 26, 2013 Can we use the word sacred truthfully? “Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of freedom I have been a student…

Bird Droppings July 25, 2013 Are we not always getting ready? “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and it’s a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.” Russell Means I walked early…