Bird Droppings July 14, 2013 High Stakes Testing and or inspection does it work? About five years back we spent several months getting ready for a peer review, actually it is called a GAPPS Review. About the same time you throw in the Georgia High School Graduation retests and PSAT, and End of Course tests…

Bird Droppings July 13, 2013 Can I teach myself or am I even allowed? “There is then, nothing final about a logical rendering of experience. Its value is not contained in itself; its significance is that of standpoint, outlook, and method. It intervenes between the more casual, tentative, and roundabout experiences of the past, and…

Bird Droppings July 12, 2013 Do children deserve more? I drove up to North Georgia numerous times the past few weeks, my daughter in law gave birth to a great big grandson and a three hour session of oral surgery all helped throw my routine out the window the past week. So adding to this…

Bird Droppings July 9, 2013 I wonder if you can get moon burn? It was a crazy evening at the Bird Nest as we gathered to bring a new grand baby into the fold. My daughter’s in-laws family had come up from Middle Georgia. I was late getting in from class in Demorest driving back…

Bird Droppings July 8, 2013 Can we be about healing? “People cannot know how sacred power, or medicine truly works, bit almost every Native American knows something of its ways. Often seen as a mysterious force that is fluid, transmissible and important malleable, sacred power can be manipulated by those who possess it – either…

Bird Droppings July 6, 2013 Some might think that curriculum is sacred I took a couple of days hiatus last week due to getting back to graduate school and trying to dodge raindrops doing yard work I am getting back I needed to shift gears and get back into my academic mindset and on to…

Bird Droppings July 5, 2013 What is normal can we define it quantitatively or qualitatively? “Normality in fact has nothing to do with statistics. It refers to a norm, a model of perfection, an example to be followed. It indicates what we should be. Normality is therefore something to strive for, something at which to…

Bird droppings July 3, 2013 Do we learn from a ripple or a wave? I will spend most of the morning in class discussing differentiation, mindsets and class dynamics today. The books so far are right up my alley. I would like to be digging and planting, transplanting and repotting various flowers and herbs in…

Bird Droppings July 2, 2013 A reflection on a pond or window of two I boxed up a couple of boxes of “junk” from my class room the other day. Each piece at one time or another had been a teachable moment. Each was an item and or items for that had been collected and…

Bird Droppings June 30, 2013 Life is making a quilt It was nearly six years ago today my wife walked in and told me that my mother said this was to be a happy time a joyous occasion as we celebrated my father’s life on Sunday. She said I think we are even having a…