this would create a larger amount of lessons. users would be able to get on maybe a list of poeple that would write some lessons and/or get an admin's approval and a lesson could be posted. if that happened then we would have a larger index of lessons to learn from and if you wanted to find something very specific, you would be able to find it. what do you think?

People do post works-in-progress and occasionally more formal tutorials in the forums. In fact, there's a specific thread called "TUTORIAL LIBRARY" dedicated to this purpose. You are encouraged to contribute!

I'd suggest that you contact Brenda Hoddinott if you have curriculum that you would like to share under the main lesson heading.

OTherwise, there's nothing stopping you from sharing it in a tutorial as Ernest suggested.