I love teaching at PATHS for many reasons: great teachers, near-total control over my curriculum, nice building, doing cool stuff with kids who want to be there...these are good. And at PATHS we all just get stuff done. Need a snowblower or lawnmower fixed? Need someone to look at your car? Have questions about insulation? This is the place. Today I was down in the Machine Shop / Welding area and got talking to the Welding instructor (a fabulous artist in metal) about a project I was thinking about involving a trellis. Before long we were talking about how it would go together and he was saying, "take some measurements", and then he was telling me to get Monday and Wednesday nights off, 6-9 p.m., so I could take his Adult Ed class and learn to bend the metal myself. Hmmmm. I'll think about it (Monday is a big lesson night, so it might not be possible). $50 for the class for PPS employees? Good grief. That's a steal. I love my school. Everyone is a teacher and a learner here.
I ate my lunch outside near the greenhouse, next to the huge globe the Welding class just finished, and thought about how cool PATHS is. Then I went inside and moved furniture around.