Speaker – John Percevault (Lethbridge Public Tech. Specialist)

Another enthusiastic leader spoke to our class today from Lethbridge School District #51. Yet again, the recurring theme of relationship-building as essential to leadership processes arose. Both speakers from this district affirmed their relationship, respect, and support for one another. As Mr. John Percevault expanded today, in today’s world we cannot know everything and so we must know who to connect to when we need to know.

John also navigates information abundance with a life-long learning approach, to the extend he refers to a necessity for HOURLY lifelong learning. His message to get connected and stay connected, again, spoke to inter-school and inter-district relationships.

Strong, purposeful two-way communication arose in today’s discussion as John discussed finding a “sweet spot” between centralized and site-independent decisions.

Class members were even invited to investigate his essential seven-process in recent admirable efforts to bring about change within a small window of resource opportunity, one that might condense to:

1. DETERMINE A MANDATE
2. ENVISION PROCESS
3. ASSESS FINANCIAL FRAMEWORK
4. ALIGN INFRASTRUCTURE
5. SYSTEM ALIGNMENT
6. SUPPORT CLASSROOM PRACTICE
7. CONTINUE TO INVITE AND ENGAGE [THE RIGHT] PEOPLE
   

What resonated most, however, was neither processes nor decisions but rather a focus on people and a passion for the role education has in the lives of our youth.