Bird Droppings August 15, 2014 Staring into the sky listening to an owl call: LEARNING – KNOWING – FINDING When I went out on my morning excursion this morning or I should say several times as I think the moon plotted against me glowing through partially opened blinds. I heard several dogs add a coyote…

Bird Droppings August 14, 2014 Teachers, is there much difference in our perceptions? “The delineation of the difference between modern (secular) society and traditional (Sacred) societies and their competing views of land and nature helps to explain the persistence of severe conflict between such societies. Unlike secular societies – where land signifies property, property signifies…

Bird Droppings August 13, 2014 Thinking about where I am going “Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path… this is what I must do; this is what I’ve got to have. This is who I am. It’s important to ask yourself, how am I useful to others? What do people…

Bird Droppings August 12, 2014 I wonder what my favorite store is; Then again is it even important? Interesting two thoughts while similar struck me this morning as I started the day out. One I heard on the radio going to get gas for my wife the other morning from a radio announcer recalling an…

Bird Droppings August 11, 2014 Teaching and or 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu Today is my fourteenth first day of school at this high school. I will just assume it will not be as tense and hectic as my first on September 11, 2001. I began the day thinking back to a…

Bird Droppings August 10, 2013 A quick reflection this morning and thinking of others “I think that empathy is important not only as a means of enhancing compassion, but I think that generally speaking when dealing with others on any level, if you are having difficulties, it’s extremely helpful to be able and try and…

Bird Droppings August 8, 2013 I am always searching for the ends of a bell-shaped curve I was reminded as former students came by last night at Open House of how we as teacher’s impact lives. Students are so much more than test scores and grades. So much more than content we teach. I was…

Bird Droppings August 7, 2014 Teachers need to try and care With school starting back again, it is like remembering years past the past few weeks as numerous former students have called, emailed, come by and visit my room or messaged me on Facebook. Some are former students and non-students who would spend time in…

Bird Droppings August 5, 2014 Wondering is a powerful tool Several years back we started sort of a school-wide vocabulary of the week and with today being the first day of teachers going back to school I was reminded of this as I was looking through my various files for quotes and such. About three…

Bird Droppings August 3, 2014 Why do crossword puzzles take so much time? Towards the end of my last History class that I teach in college, one of my students was working on a particular assignment and had to define bias and was confused. She was not sure which definition was correct and asked my…