I attended another meeting today… But this one was quite special as it is near and dear as they say…. It turns out that a community member has a piece of property laid out in a manner quite similar to that which we hope to create in our nature center. It has a spring and a series of ponds (deeper than any that I would want on school property) fed by that spring. The owner of that property is willing to provide access and to share that site with the district until our nature center can be built. Today we took all of our science teachers out there, with TEKS in hand, to devise ways to use such a facility in our outdoor education efforts. The ideas flowed like the spring itself. Within hours at least one teacher had a class outdoors. I anxiously hope that teachers using the facility will blog about the outdoor experiences.