I am thrilled to announce that, our principal, Terry MacIsaac, has been named one of Canada’s Outstanding Principals!! He is the only Island principal selected and one of only 51 selected in all of Canada! (You can read more about the award at http://www.thelearningpartnership.ca/
The picture I selected to go with my blog today is of the day that Amanda Joudrey-LeBlanc’s Edge and my KaBoom first came to Prince Street School. This picture is taken in Terry’s office and is of Jo-Anne and Colleen introducing the new pups while Kate holds the already established Kannon. Terry took this all in stride. It is his way!
You may wonder how Terry’s award links to the dogs at school. Well, having the dogs at school helps demonstrate why our principal is THE very best! Terry is a lead from beside type of leader. If you have an idea and can lay out for him how you think it might work and why we should try it, he will be the first to encourage you to go for it! Because he encourages us to creatively problem-solve and think beyond the edges while ensuring we have a learning community respectful of risk-taking, we get to do a lot of pretty innovative stuff at our school. The dogs are just one small example of that! When we went to him and said, Hey! What about dogs? and shared the details of what we hoped could be, we got a green light!
In fact, as part of Terry’s interview with CBC Compass, our local television news program, KaBoom was featured as one of the initiatives he has championed. The link for the program is at:
http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/PEI/Compass/ID/2332644979/
His segment starts at 18:10.
We are so very lucky to have such an instructional leader!!
One of our parents blogs as well and you can see his entry and comments about the award at ruk.ca
AND this is not Terry’s first award!!! Last year he was awarded the Dr. Samual R. Laycock Educator of the Year Award from the Canadian Home and School Federation.
Yep! Proud Day here at PSS!!!
