When he was speaking to the winners of the Prime Minister’s Awards for Teaching Excellence, Joel Westheimer, Educa?on Columnist for the CBC, began with what he cited as the reasons we all chose to work in the field of educa?on: Fame, Power and Privilege. The extraordinary Canadian educators siGng in the room were visibly perplexed and looked side to side at one another, as if to validate “did I just hear that?”
Obviously, Mr. Westheimer’s words were spoken in gest; fame, power and privilege were surely not among the motivations that resulted in your commitment to educatioon. The work of school boards is humbling, normally involving travelling many miles and spending cold winter evenings in school classrooms. It is at times frustrating and challenging, but it is also phenomenally inspiring, fulfilling and extremely important to the students who are the future of our country. The Canadian School Boards Association (CSBA) strives to support you in this important work by:
The Canadian School Boards Associa?on (CSBA) strives to support you in this important work by:
- advocating on a national, sometimes multidisciplinary level for the issues that you consider of upmost importance.
- providing a forum for your leaders to join forces with other jurisdictions, providing each other with resources and information to support your work.
- promoting the value of the work you do, the public educatoon system as a whole and the key role of school boards in the success of that system.
We hope that the report provided below will give you a glimpse into ac?ons that are representative of those objectives