The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Thomas Moore

  • Horses and Trains and Learning

    Bird Droppings January 10, 2012 Horses and Trains and learning   It has been many years since I last rode on a train. I mean a serious train going more than the distance between concourses at an airport. Years ago when I lived in the Philadelphia area, we all used mass transit to commute, to…

  • Reaching out

    Bird Droppings January 9, 2012 Reaching out   “We may not live holy lives but we live in a world full of holy moments” Kent Nerburn, Simple Truths   Today starts my first full week of school for this semester. Thinking ahead a bit fifteen weeks to go or so and graduation May 20th and…

  • Reading about yourself will sometimes offer a clue

    Bird Droppings January 8, 2012 Reading about your self will sometimes offer a clue   After over thirty three years of marriage it seems almost like day one every day and each keeps getting better. Periodically it seems I will receive at some odd hour of the night and or morning a paper to review…

  • Digging for gold

    Bird Droppings January 7, 2012 Digging for gold   “You have to drill through mud and water to get oil; you have to sift through sand and silt to get gold; you have to chop and hack through stone to get diamonds. So why do so many people feel that the treasure of ideas should…

  • Caring: A very precious commodity in teaching

    Bird Droppings January 6, 2012 Caring: A very precious commodity in teaching                   As I am pondering my last minutes before the school day starts. The air temperature is warming again outside and we are under a thinking its spring again weather watch tonight through next week. The anticipation of some rain and warm…

  • Getting the passion back

    Bird Droppings January 5, 2012 Getting the passion back   When I walked outside earlier to take our Westie for her morning bathroom break I was greeted with a near full moon, well maybe a half moon and a crystal clear sky filled with stars. Thinking to myself I said thank you for being alive…

  • Looking at the reflection beyond a mirror

    Bird Droppings January 4, 2012 Looking at the reflection beyond a mirror   I was looking over again a book this morning “Qualities of an effective teacher” by Dr. James H. Stronge, Professor in Educational Policy, Planning, and leadership at theCollegeofWilliamand Mary,WilliamsburgVirginia. Stronge looked at students and how various aspects of a teacher’s involvement effect…

  • Looking for the elder in each of us

    Bird Droppings January 3, 2011 Looking for the elder in each of us ‎ “Someday the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you will die too.”  John…

  • So hard to type 2012

    Bird Droppings January 2, 2012 It is so hard to type 2012               Sitting here coming to school in the dark alone thinking back after skipping a day of writing. I received a small book for Christmas about five years ago from my wife, “It isn’t easy being green” by Jim Henson Jr., the…

  • Risk ahead

    Bird Droppings December 31, 2011 Risk ahead               How more appropriate to end the year than to look at the idea of risk and what lies ahead. Risk is a driving force of who we are and why we are and what we do. How we take chances and avoid risk are defining pieces…