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…

Bird Droppings July 24, 2013 Why 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, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy What a way to start with a line from a…

Bird Droppings July 22, 2013 Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk if you listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen. They never learned to listen to the Indians so I don’t suppose they’ll listen to other voices in…

Bird Droppings July 22, 2013 Is it a paradox that sometimes small can be big? “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Laura Ingalls Wilder It seems like yesterday that I was looking at some power point slides as we waited…

Bird Droppings July 21, 2013 Why is it so hard listening to a child? It has been some time since I was sitting in my class room when a friend came by with her baby brother about six weeks old at the time. There is something about newborns that is so special as she left…