Most of my life I have been a 'team' guy. I started organized hockey in 1958 and still play today. I played football in high school, Junior in Peterborough Ontario, university football at St. Mary's in Halifax, recreational flag football in Edmonton for 12 years, and coached the sport starting in 1974 until last year. I'm a team oriented person.
I am now part of the most important team in the biggest game ever. We can't afford to lose. I play for the Woodhaven Wolfpack Teacher Team and the game we play is ensuring that all our students reach High School +. That is, graduate from High School and go on to further training beyond that.
Our team is like the young Oilers...many new faces working to jell together to achieve our goals. I am incredibly optimistic about this year. The optimism comes from the way our team has jumped into collaborating together to co-create learning opportunities that will work for our students. If you were to drop by our school on any day you will find groups of teachers working together to create common understanding of what the critical learning is for students, how we will know in the deepest way that they 'get it', and how we will help them if they need more time to 'get it'.
I like our team....I sound like Tom Renney... they are ready to play the game of their lives.
Coach Foster
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