Bird Droppings April 10, 2014 The journey starts here now “Who, then, shall conduct education so that humanity may improve?” John Dewey A very deep and broad question, I was thinking back to my own community and associations. We elect school board members who hire teachers and principals, they decide on schools to build and…

Bird Droppings April 9, 2014 How could it be neither wolf nor dog? I was approached as I walked up the hill at the Atlanta Zoo by an elderly man. I had never met this man previously and hope to never meet again. He saw my camera around my neck and asked if I saw…

Bird Droppings April 8, 2014 Teaching is it a habit or a routine? “Habit is an effect of repeated acts and an aptitude to reproduce them, and may be defined as – a quality difficult to change, whereby an agent whose nature it is to work one way or another indeterminately, is disposed easily and…

Bird Droppings April 7, 2014 Teaching is making 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. As I…

Bird Droppings April 6, 2014 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 and…

Bird Droppings April 4, 2014 I detest shopping but I really like Kroger After nearly a week of no computer of my own that can half way respond I have my laptop back. It was interesting I had two thoughts while similar that came to me this morning as I started the day out. One…

Bird Droppings March 27, 2014 Can we really find answers? Several years ago I would have said there were answers to almost any question that could be asked. Today sitting here I wonder granted first you have to ask what is the question or questions but I have a different attitude now sort of one…

Bird Droppings March 26, 2014 A morning meandering while the moon is glowing Last night after tutoring after school with a student who needs constant repetition of material to remember I read through several old emails from my doctorate and graduate cohort friends as some are defending their dissertations in the coming weeks. In another…

Bird Droppings March 25, 2014 Is there a difference between progressive and traditional teachers? In a ninth grade literature class that I happened to co-teach in, I was introduced to the book Freedom Writers Diary and the film based on the book. In some ways the story is similar to the story of Foxfire. Erin…

Bird Droppings March 24, 2014 The sacredness of finding Foxfire in the Kalahari Desert I have known about Foxfire for nearly forty five years since I bought my first copy of a Foxfire book in 1972 or so. Since that time coincidence as it may be I have taken courses in the Foxfire approach to…