With Winter Break on the horizon, I have begun to see some predictable mental fatigue creep into what has been a momentous fall in our education system.
With the challenging September start-up slowly receding in our rearview mirrors, school districts around the province are beginning to settle into a new rhythm of schooling for the foreseeable futu
I happened to be in a grocery store recently, and a high school student recognized me and bundled up his courage to ask me about secondary school for the coming year.
I would be remiss if as an educator, superintendent and black man I did not comment on the world-wide anti-racism protests which have been sparked by the recent murder of George Floyd.
I was fortunate to host my fourth student meeting of the year just prior to Spring Break, and before the pandemic postponed face to face classes. Much like the previous meeting with students from W
The last three weeks have been the most surreal in my career. I would have never dreamed that the place we call school could be so dramatically disrupted in such a short period of time. But COVID
A few years ago when we were updating our strategic plan (in much the same way we are now), we reached out to parents, staff and community members to ask about the things we needed to consider so a
Kevin has been the Superintendent of Schools for the Abbotsford School District since July 2011, overseeing some 19,000 students and 2,500 employees. Kevin is committed to student success in all forms and envisions a school district that can nimbly respond to the ever changing needs and interests of its students.
Kevin is committed to team work, working collaboratively with district staff and community partners to make the school district the best it can be. He still considers himself a teacher at heart, and believes, like Nelson Mandela, that the “keenest revelation into the soul of any society is manifested in the manner in which they treat their children.”