“Successful school leaders build collaborative teaching and learning cultures and contribute to a positive climate for learning and working. For one recent location, illustrate how your unique leadership style enabled you to positively impact student achievement and well-being within a diverse school community and affect a change that has outlived your direct leadership influence.”
As a school leader I strongly believe that all students must be given the opportunity to be successful. As both a leader and educator, our most important goal is to ensure that all students are successful in their own capacity and we must give them those opportunities every day. As educators, we not only guide students academically, but we foster a commitment to provide students success through student achievement, well being and community relations, where all students achieve their full potential socially, emotionally, and academically. During my career as a Guidance Counselor and Teacher-Leader, I have had the privilege of honouring and celebrating the rich cultures that we at The
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The Inclusion Month Initiative at Sir John A. Macdonald ensured we respected all of our diversity, while honouring the rich heritage and accomplishments of the Black, Asian and Aboriginal history
After our collective review of the schools present monthly assemblies, we recognized that we needed to enrich and obtain quality resources, in order to produce assemblies that were interactive, informative and educational. We reviewed PDSB resources, web resources and enlisted the expertise of the various resource teachers available in our topic areas. I, along with other committee members, collaborated on ways to bring in other community volunteers, who would help our audience be more engaged while increasing their knowledge of Diversity and