“I really needed the extra space,” English teacher Megan Springs said. “I have outgrown my old room considerably!”
Due to the bond changing the location of the entry doors, the English hallway needed to be rearranged by the end of the year. English teacher Austyn Suduth is taking Springs old room to stay close to English teacher Hannah Haines, with whom she co-teaches. Likewise, JAG teacher Mindy McCormick is moving as well.
“I offered to move so that Ms. Sudduth could stay close to Mrs. Haines since they co-plan together,” Springs said.
Springs agreed to move, and did so two months before the deadline, at the end of the year. She is moving from room 303 to room 207.
“It’s so nice to just have more room,” sophomore Sam Browning said. “I feel like I can breathe more.”
The room is roughly 50 percent bigger than the old room. Beyond the space, it provides other benefits to the class. Namely, helping with the teaching Springs does beyond English, such as family studies and human growth and development.
“The designated space for my family studies’ dolls and equipment is also something that I didn’t have in the old room,” Springs said. “I love that I can now charge the babies and keep them set up and ready to go for class without having them out in the middle of everything else I need to do.”
The timing of the move was well planned, and with the help of many hands, it went smoothly.
“We have such a wonderful school community at our school, and so many people offered help cleaning up the new space and moving all of my items over,” Springs said. “I would likely still be moving if it hadn’t been for our awesome AHS students.”
Sophomore Cody Eagleson agreed, helping to move her stuff as quickly as possible.
“There were so many of us, it went by really fast,” Eagleson said.
After the move, Springs took time to reflect.
“I spent 11 years in room 303; it was also my very first classroom anywhere since I started teaching at AHS right out of college,” Springs said. “That made it hard to leave, and there were definitely some bittersweet tears. I think we are all going to feel a bit of that as we watch our building change over the next few months.”
