Legos are shiny, colorful blocks that turn the impossible into a 3-D reality. School is a place of learning for the doorways to opportunity open up. The two aren’t usually affiliated together, but for Assistant Principal David Reed-Nordwall, they click perfectly. Reed-Nordwall weaves Lego-building concepts into the master schedule, which is a spreadsheet of every teacher’s classes.

“I think they fit very well with my dream to build, I always wanted to create things … I have to make a master schedule and that master schedule runs the entire building and a lot of the people don’t think of it as very interesting, but it’s a puzzle, just like Legos. The pieces have to fit and it represents the entire school, so the classes you go to everyday, the teachers and what they teach, when they teach and how they teach it is all represented by that schedule, which is in essence a really really intricate Lego block,” Reed-Nordwall said.

Not only does he incorporate Legos into his job, but his love for the building blocks also tie into his hobbies. In particular, Reed-Nordwall’s building experience applies to exterior design projects, like redoing his front porch from wood.

“I like to build stuff, so right now my house is my hobby where I try to make things and, you know, fix things around the house. That’s fun, it’s good,” Reed-Nordwall said .

Reed-Nordwall started his Lego creations when he was 6, and continues the tradition nowadays with his three daughters.

“I love Legos, I try not to collect them because I think they should be played with, but … some of them you just have to collect because they’re like sculptures. Other than that, you know, I don’t really collect,” Reed-Nordwall said. “It was some of my favorite winter afternoons with fire in the fireplace and just building massive Lego sets with the girls and then they would take them up to their room and play with them and it’d be great.”