Ketchikan teacher hopes sabbatical will help him share guitar-making and homebuilding skills with students
Posted by Eric Stone | Feb 9, 2021
Ketchikan High School. (KRBD file photo)
A Ketchikan schoolteacher is asking the school board for a year off to study homebuilding and guitar-making. A teacher that calls himself a “jack of all trades” says he’d like to take next school year to master a couple new ones.
Todd Henke says he’s devoted the last 12 years to teaching students all manner of practical skills, from woodworking to engineering, welding, architecture even English.
He says he’s largely self-taught.
“A lot of the different areas I’ve taught, I have, I’ve had to learn in order to teach, or just learn along with the students,” Henke said in a phone interview Wednesday.