Bird Droppings March 7, 2018 Should I be a wolf or dog in education?   In light of watching current news and political turmoil I recalled a trip to the Atlanta Zoo. I was approached as I walked up the hill at the Zoo by an elderly man. I had never met this man previously…

Bird Droppings March 6, 2018 Teaching can make a difference each day   “Dialogue, is the encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world” Paulo Freire   A Brazilian educationalist and one of the most influential thinkers of the late twentieth century made famous the term dialogue in his writing.…

Bird Droppings March 5, 2018 Potential is only that unless it is acted upon   “Love is a complex experience which seems to follow no rules but its own. Romantic love can have the power of a hurricane or the tenderness of a soft wet wind. I have known, too, a chance introduction which instantly…

Bird Droppings March 2, 2018 Puzzle’s always are missing a piece   Shell Silverstein tells and has written a great story of the missing piece. A pie shaped piece of a circle is all alone looking for its circle to be whole.   “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what…

Bird Droppings February 6, 2018 Teaching is a journey it is not copy, paste or bubble.   “To project an image of what Public Education in the US might become in the 21st Century is more to move back and forth between the predictable and the possible.” Maxine Greene, Colombia University, res: Imagining futures: the…

Bird Droppings January 31, 2018 Being an example is such a simple lesson plan Early this morning a video was posted on several educators’ social media pages. It was of a seven year old child who had been violent in the class room. It was a general education class room and the child had a…

Bird Droppings January 30, 2018 LIFE Morning is a special time a beginning. Several aspects make it special first one of taking the dog out and talking with them as he sniffs and does his thing in the yard. Then I go to my writing and reading which has become my meditation for the day…

Bird Droppings January 28, 2018 The fragility of life   Early this morning I was awakened a bit early with the pouring down of rain. I also getting old and needed to take a potty break. Hearing what I the rain and a teenager I assume tearing out of our subdivision about two in the…

Bird Droppings January 26, 2018 A chill in the air but not in the heart, thank you Maya Angelou   For several weeks now we have been balancing between warm and cold weather in the early mornings which still is too cold for the crickets and tree frogs who need an ambient temperature a bit…

Bird Droppings January 25, 2018 Should we be examining the threads of life?   “Man did not weave the web of life he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.” Chief Seattle, 1854   It has been a few years since I read a National Geographic…