Bird Droppings October 26, 2012 Do we make teachers or are they are born?   I started this endeavor yesterday in response to a quality teacher issue and how we spend so little time evaluating teachers and place emphasis on a non-valid instrument such as an end of course test. I eventually got a bit…

Bird Droppings October 25, 2012 Who is responsible?   Here in Georgia we have on the ballot an amendment to the State Constitution to provide for a new State Board for Charter Schools. This board is such that it would lie outside local support department of education authority and be appointed by the Governor. Most…

Bird Droppings October 24, 2012 Is sacred more than simply a word?   “When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation…

Bird Droppings October 23, 2012 Why not continue the Journey?   “So I’d much rather get across the concept of freedom. It’s what’s important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed,…

Bird Droppings October 22, 2012 Should we look within to who we really are?   Amazing what a day or two out of routine will do. I actually did not get on my computer and do anything of a writing sort knowing this coming week off I would be writing in significant quantity. So I…

Bird Droppings October 19, 2012 Would you choose mud or stars?   About two weeks from today I will celebrate a birthday and for several years now as I start and make a comment about my age a good friend always reminds me I have the years wrong. I claim to be a year younger…

Bird Droppings October 18, 2012 Can you tie a knot with only one end?   “Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.” Charles…

Bird Droppings October 17, 2012 Should we compare children to sponges or containers?   “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” William Butler Yeats   Numerous times over the past few years I have been amazed by four year olds and the level of inquisitiveness as the Early…

Bird Droppings October 16, 2012 Over the years I have found it is simply to write   “I hold strongly to the belief that we are all part of the drum, and when the drumhead is struck in one place, it reverberates through us all. I also hold firmly to the belief that service to…

Bird Droppings October 15, 2012 Can we even look for truth in an untruthful world?   “A king asked a sage to explain the Truth. In response the sage asked the king how he would convey the taste of a mango to someone who had never eaten anything sweet. No matter how hard the king…