{"id":6548,"date":"2017-09-27T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T23:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/?p=6548"},"modified":"2018-03-13T23:29:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T03:29:50","slug":"new-westminster-schools-superintendent-pat-duncan-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/new-westminster-schools-superintendent-pat-duncan-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"New Westminster Schools Superintendent Pat Duncan to retire\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6543 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Pat-1-640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"282\" \/>September 27, 2017<\/em> \u2013 The Board of Education for New Westminster Schools announced today that Superintendent of Schools &amp; CEO of New Westminster Schools, Pat Duncan, has informed the Board of Education of his intention to retire, effective December 31, 2017.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Pat joined the New Westminster School District in August 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chair of the Board of Education, Kelly Slade-Kerr, said the New Westminster Board of Education \u201cappreciates the work that Pat has done during a transformational time in the life of the district. His commitment, professionalism and leadership were pivotal as the district introduced a new provincial curriculum, rolled out to a full middle school model, overhauled the district\u2019s policy framework, and advanced our high school capital project. I am pleased to say that our district is on a firm foundation as we move forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>During his 34 year career in public education, Pat served as associate-superintendent and deputy superintendent in the Greater Victoria school district for eight years. He was an executive member of the BC School Superintendents\u2019 Association for six years and a teacher in English, P.E. and Leadership in the Cowichan Valley for two decades, where he also served as acting director of middle and secondary schools. As a voracious reader, Duncan has followed his passion for the science of learning, garnering a reputation in the province as an innovator in education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to sincerely thank the Board of Education for giving me the opportunity to take on this leadership position,\u201d Duncan said. \u201cIt has been an honour and a privilege to serve the Board of Education, as well as the parents, staff and students of the New Westminster School District. Together, over the past two years, I believe we have accomplished a great deal and have very good reason to be proud of our endeavours. We have an incredibly talented and passionate staff in the New Westminster School District, and I am very confident that our District is well positioned to continue its very positive trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Education will immediately begin a Canada wide search for a new Superintendent\/CEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 27, 2017 \u2013 The Board of Education for New Westminster Schools announced today that Superintendent of Schools &amp; CEO of New Westminster Schools, Pat Duncan, has informed the Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-events","category-events-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6548"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6552,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6548\/revisions\/6552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newwestschools.ca\/archive_241212\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}