Students and teachers feted Bob Davis's Teacher of Excellence Award Friday with pizza, a short break from classes at the end of the day, and an error-riddled sign.

The errors were intentional, a loving tweak of pet-peeve grammatical errors Davis has reminded students about countless times over his years as a middle school English teacher.

"They're the ones I would harp at," he said, chuckling.

Davis is in his 20th year as a teacher at Stikine. Teaching emerged as a career path after a long time as a student, Davis said.

"I was six years at college, and my advisor came in and said 'Davis, you g...