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…

Bird Droppings March 21, 2014 The beginning or end in a circle is where? “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” Albert Einstein Over…

Bird Droppings March 20, 2014 Can we teach a love of learning? I bumped into this young lady at the grocery store a few days ago and it had been some time since our last run in. She was one of my secret seniors nearly six years ago. It has been almost some time since…

Bird Droppings March 18, 2014 Teachers should we question our questions? Yesterday as I was sitting in my class room for the first time in many days after finding in my files an article from a few years back about the innuendos about who and why Georgia students in middles schools across the state did…