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How do we know on a cloudy day if the moon is setting or the sun is rising?
Bird Droppings July 16, 2013 How do we know on a cloudy day if the moon is setting or the sun is rising? I left the house relatively early to get gas for my wives car and since staying at home today to...
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Is doing what you love really work?
Bird Droppings July 18, 2013 Is doing what you love really work? “To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?” Katharine Graham After thirty plus days of rain...
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Let us change NCLB to OCAT today!
Bird Droppings July 19, 2013 Let us change NCLB to OCAT today! I woke up like most other days and as you get older each day is a prize and for some reason sat at my computer pondering much longer than...
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Why is it so hard listening to a child?
Bird Droppings July 21, 2013 Why is it so hard listening to a child? It has been some time since I was sitting in my class room when a friend came by with her baby brother about six weeks old at the...
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Is it a paradox that sometimes small can be big?
Bird Droppings July 22, 2013 Is it a paradox that sometimes small can be big? “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” Laura Ingalls...
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Did you know trees can talk?
Bird Droppings July 22, 2013 Did you know trees can talk? “Did you know that trees talk? Well they do. They talk to each other, and they’ll talk if you listen. Trouble is, white people don’t listen....
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Why is experience the greatest teacher?
Bird Droppings July 24, 2013 Why is experience the greatest teacher? “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their...
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Are we not always getting ready?
Bird Droppings July 25, 2013 Are we not always getting ready? “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and it’s a policy where they...
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Can we use the word sacred truthfully?
Bird Droppings July 26, 2013 Can we use the word sacred truthfully? “Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no...
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Listening to a chorus of Frogs, Crickets and an occasional owl
Bird Droppings July 29, 2013 Listening to a chorus of Frogs, Crickets and an occasional owl “You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Doug Floyd Most every night and early morning...
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What do we miss?
Bird Droppings July 30, 2013 What do we miss? All Along the Watchtower There must be some way out of here, Said the joker to the thief, There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief. Businessmen,...
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Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum or can I get a nickels worth of cheese
Bird Droppings July 31, 2013 Finding Soul in looking at Curriculum Or Can I get a nickels worth of cheese There is something about the first light on a summer’s morning. It could be about trying to...
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Is doing the best teacher?
Bird Droppings August 1, 2013 Is doing the best teacher? It has been an interesting week. I did my usual going into school and working in my room. I spent a good bit of the mornings taking advantage of...
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Why do more?
Bird Droppings August 2, 2013 Why do more? “Choices are sacred to life’s journey. They lie along the path that all of us must follow for ourselves. An important Cherokee lesson is that if you involve...
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Don’t cross word puzzles take some time?
Bird Droppings August 4, 2013 Don’t cross word puzzles take some time? Towards the end of the last school year one of my students was working on a history assignment and had to define bias. She was not...
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Is not wondering is a powerful tool?
Bird Droppings August 5, 2013 Is not 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...
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Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of a box
Bird Droppings August 6, 2013 Sailing off the edge and or thinking out of a box “I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal...
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Teachers need to try and care
Bird Droppings August 6, 2013 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...
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Searching for the ends of a bell shaped curve
Bird Droppings August 8, 2013 Searching for the ends of a bell shaped curve “Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I’ll tell you their philosophy of life.” Dale Carnegie In the...
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It is so much more than just wanting to
Bird Droppings August 9, 2013 It is so much more than just wanting to “I want to say one other challenge that we face is simply that we must find an alternative to war and bloodshed. Anyone who feels,...
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