Our Director of Education, Jennifer Adams, is both the Chief Education Officer and the Chief Executive Officer of the school district. She reports directly to, and is accountable to, the Board of Trustees for the organization and operation of the District. All school district authority delegated to staff is delegated through the Director of Education.

The Director of Education has as her senior staff team an Assoicate Director and several Superintendents, both school and business, and together they form the senior leadership team for the school district. The team is officially known as the Director’s Executive Council and all educational, financial, school organization and facilities planning and management is developed through this leadership team for the Board of Trustees.  Meet our Director and Superintendents.

Our senior staff team has a wealth of educational leadership experience and in combination with our four-year strategic plan, will be leading the District to even greater student success by implementing key actions and priorities in the following four focus areas: 

Well-being

• Enhance safe, caring and respecful learning and working environments
• Create a framework for student and staff well-being that recognizes the mental, physical and emotional health of students and staff.
• In collaboration with community partners, develop specific strategies to further the cultural proficiency of the school district in terms of inclusive and accessible practices and a workplace representative of the community we serve.
• Nurture an emotionally intelligent organizational culture that recognizes and supports innovation, productivity and employee wellness.

Engagement

• Enhance parental engagement and outreach to all parents.
• Create a framework for and initiate effective partnerships with organizations that enrich our schools as community hubs.
• Encourage broad community engagement in school and district initiatives.
• Develop a strategy that supports and encourages engagement in provincial, national and international initiatives to encourage organizational learning and global citizenship.

Leadership

• Implement sound governance structures and practices.
• Develop specific strategies for leadership development and succession planning with a focus on developing emotionally intelligent leaders who foster innovation, collaboration and the celebration of success.
• Enhance our risk management culture, focusing on effective financial, information, and human resources management practices and internal audit controls.
• Encourage and support student leadership and citizenship to promote global competencies.

Learning  

• Enhance instructional practice to encourage and support critical and creative thinking skills.
• Maintain a cyclical program development, monitoring and review framework to improve equity of access to programs, pathways and services for all students.
• Use student survey data to identify and understand groups that require additional services and supports.
• Develop an organizational culture that is committed to lifelong learning.
  
  

To reach the Director’s office, please call or email:
Marie Bulgin
613-596-8211  ext 8219