As a Leader, Why do you do what you do? A leader's message.

A successful organization has a leader who understand and is passionate about the "WHY" of the organization and is able to get others to understand, articulate and be equally passionate about this "Why".The following is one such message.

"As an education system (school board) we are becoming more adept at defining what we do and how we do it. Our Strategic Plan is what we do. Our what is improving student learning by Raising the Bar, Closing the Gap. Increasing the Retention Rate and Maintaining Public Confidence. Our Board Improvement Plan is how we do it. Our focus has been on how to improve Literacy, Numeracy, Assessment, Pathways and maintaining Public Confidence. More recently as a Board, we have become more interested in exploring the answer to why we do what we do. We feel it is important that as a school board we understand why we spend the time, the effort and the resources doing what we do. As Director, I do what I do because I believe all students can learn if they are provided the best opportunity to be successful. I believe that when all students succeed, we succeed as a society. I believe our Education System is the driver that enables our society to continue to maintain its competitive edge that allows us to enjoy the quality of life to which we have become accustomed. I believe that our students are our future. I challenge all who read this…all of our staff throughout the District and my colleagues throughout the province to ask the same question and to try to find their own answer. Why do you do what you do? Why are you passionate about this work of education? Why did you become a teacher, a vice principal, a principal, a superintendent, a director, a trustee? Why have you chosen to work in schools as an EA, secretary, care staff or other crucial support staff? Why do we depend on parents/guardians and community partners to join us in in our Mission to develop all students to reach their full potential. Why? Because we want and recognize that all students need to succeed. We want all students who enter our schools to be able to tell their success story. Our future depends on our successes of today. What is learned, developed and encouraged within our schools will be felt within our communities, our province and our country. We know that by learning together and succeeding together - we are building our future together. I am confident that if we are all committed to what we do and how we do it, but more importantly why we do what we do, we will be very successful in our noble cause.