Meeting Room with a View

In over two decades of providing professional development and training to educators, I confess to having taught in all kinds of presentation and classroom spaces. That means lots of media centers, no small number of classrooms, occasionally in cafeterias, every once in a while in a central training room, from time to time in a hotel ballroom, and a handful of times in recreation club spaces. Perhaps twice I've taught in church facilities.

Last week, I got to conduct a training session for aspiring principals from Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in a gorgeous room with the best views ever: the Neill Board Room of the Burress Center in the new offices of the Winston-Salem Foundation:

Here's a shot of the group, and you can see how those floor-to-ceiling windows offered a wide-ranging view of the Winston-Salem city skyline and downtown:

And looking in on the room through the glass wall:

Now, has your attentive eye picked up on why I'm posting about this on the Roediger House blog? Yep: I spent the whole day, for the first time ever, teaching in a room that looked down on the house I live in. (See the first and third photos above.)

That's right: the Winston-Salem Foundation is located in the new 751 W. Fourth building, about which I've blogged in the past. That building with the wonderful amenity floor on top with a rooftop deck for relaxing breaks from trainings:

...and from which, if one looks south while enjoying that top-floor view, one can spot the wonderful Roediger House, which itself has a pretty snazzy view of the downtown skyline:

A friend of mine was in town that week and snagged this photo looking back at 751 W Fourth. If you look at the third floor, over to the right, you'll see a session facilitator leaning against the glass of the presentation room during his session with aspiring principals: