Bird Dropping November 2, 2012 Why is it hard to think about compassion?   It is quiet sitting in a hotel room in South Carolina still dark outside and odd not being at school on a Friday I so seldom miss a day of school. My middle son and his wife moved yesterday from SC…

Bird Droppings November 1, 2012 I do wonder about getting older?   “Age is an issue of mind over matter.  If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” Mark Twain   I find myself using age to my advantage when the little girl at the register at Kroger asked for senior citizenship or not. I carry…

Bird Droppings October 31, 2012 Can we use intuition? I mentioned to a fellow teacher I can tell when a child has issues most of the time after observing a few minutes and listening. Granted observations are part of most evaluations but I was referring to an intuitive aspect of observation. Something we learn perhaps…

Bird Droppings October 30, 2012 Why would some rather send a photo than write?   “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 Brave…

Bird Droppings October 29, 2012 How difficult is it having a heart?   It is chilly outside in Georgia temperatures are supposed to get near almost to freezing but not quite, high forties but one of coldest days so far this fall. We have still a week or two till we are off from school…

Bird Droppings October 27, 2012 It takes more than one strand to make a rope   “You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.”Faith Baldwin   Each day as I talk to my students I try and…

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,…