In Schools, we create artificial learning environments for our children that they know to be contrived and undeserving of their full attention and engagement. Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract, and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged." - shop teacher

This opening quote for the book, Shop Class as Soulcraft, explains a lot about several generations of educated people in the US. It's like peaking behind the curtain of a freakshow that we have come to except as normal, and seeing the gears of a great machine neglected and grinding and falling apart.

-Chad told me about a guy in Oregon that is a math teacher as well as educatrional garden developer. find link...

-in yosemite, I am going to write to each line item in the sub-test 1 information outline, as they relate to a woodshop. after the CSET I will start to add pictures and build a plan for an IA teacher training program.

-I need to propose a passive solar model, to different audiences and different business sectors and government sectors. draw attention to the first model

-sketchup evaluation
http://sketchup.google.com/industries/edu/educators.html
case study teaching 16-18 yr old home design
https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dc837t9h_68gt44qsgt

thinking about how to wrap the CA CTE standard with a web app framework and advocate for community development.
http://public.resource.org/rules/