Thank you, everyone, for another great year in Saanich. 2008/09 brought many successes, some of which I have noted in my June newsletter, not the least of which was the way we came together as a community to deal with our budget challenge for 2009/10. Even with the reductions, we are looking forward to another great year for public education in Saanich and across the province as a whole.
We are also interested to see the emergence, at least informally, of a province-wide dialogue about funding. People are wondering about funding levels, the mandate for public education (does it match the funding?) and the potential for some efficiencies to be found system-wide. I look forward to hearing more about that as we move into the fall. Meanwhile, I wish all of you the best possible summer and a great start to the new school year.
About Me
- Keven Elder
- As a school district superintendent in Saanich, B.C., Canada I am happy to be able to share information and invite conversation through this blog. We live in interesting and exciting times in public education; it is important for us to have venues such as this for sharing and dialogue. Thank you for your interest.
4 comments:
Thank you very much for sharing all that you've shared this past school year. I hope that participation will increase in the next school year.
And thank you very much again for the list of books that have inspired you.
• The Tipping Point, Blink and The Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed – Jared Diamond
• Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything -
Don Tapscott
• A Whole New Mind - Daniel Pink
• Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the
World Learns - Clayton Christensen
• The Brain that Changes Itself – Norman Doidge
• Please Mr. Einstein – Jean Claude Carriere
• Infinity: The Quest to Think the Unthinkable – Brian Clegg
• Dances with Dependency – Calvin Helin
• Good to Great – Jim Collins
• Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
• The Six Secrets of Change – Michael Fullan
Global, a particular thanks to you for providing an ongoing commentary on this blog. I plan to continue posting updates, ideas, questions and musings, and like you I look forward to seeing more comments from more readers emerge over time. Meanwhile, I hope that you are all having a good (hot!) summer.
Thanks! Our (hot!) summer so far has been busy and active. We spent a week at a primitive skills camp in Sooke (an annual enjoyment) with our boys and my mother, who was visiting from Europe. We got a new puppy from the SPCA, and she's been keeping us busy and looking at empowerment, team-work and leadership. The weather has been giving us ample opportunity to find creative ways to find fun and relaxation. This coming weekend my husband will be renting an aircraft to take the boys to the Abbotsford Airshow. All in all, good fun all around!
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