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Chair’s Message
Our annual report for 2018-19 has been completed, and I am pleased to introduce it to you on behalf of our Board of Trustees. As we begin 2020, we look forward to building and contributing to a new Strategic Plan; one that will be a combination of the work of Senior Staff, and our Director of Education, with contributions from our Board of Trustees and in fact all stakeholders across our system including but not limited to our staff at all levels, community partners, and last but certainly not least, our students.
In Avon Maitland, one of our top priorities has always been to attract and retain staff. We are blessed to have an excellent and talented Senior Staff along with a Board full of terrific employees who have dedicated their lives to our students and their learning.
A tagline that always rings true in our system is: Engage, Inspire, Innovate....Always Learning!
It is our job as a Board of Trustees to:
• Ensure that our students are engaged in their learning by offering to them all pathways that value differentiated and inclusive education that best reflects their needs.
• Inspire our students to reach for and achieve their best, not only in the classroom but well beyond.
• Introduce and support innovative learning to allow our students to reach for the stars and achieve their goals.
The statistics and information presented in this report illustrate what progress we have made during the 2018-2019 school year.
One of our goals as trustees is to help to provide the best education possible for our students in Huron and Perth counties. We are very proud of all of our staff, who, through professional development, share their ideas among colleagues and advance and develop fresh new ways to make learning more exciting for our students. They have truly helped to take our students to another level along their paths.
Avon Maitland District School Board has much to be proud of. It is important to remember and value the fact that all of us are always learning.
Enjoy the report!
Colleen Schenk
Chair of the Board
AVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD | 2018-2019 Director’s Annual Report
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