About Rick

I have had the opportunity to spend most of my adult life as a coach and a teacher. For 15 years I was involved in high school administration, 7 years as a vice-principal (Sept 97 – June 2004) and 8 years (Sept 2004 – June 2012) as principal. In of the fall of 2012 I moved to a position of district principal in the Grande Prairie Public school district working out of central office.  In the spring of 2013, I accepted a position as Assistant Superintendent of the Westwind School Division in Southwest Alberta.  I will be retiring from Westwind in the summer of 2018 and will be taking up a new position as the Executive Director of the Southern Alberta Professional Development Consortium.

I completed a Doctorate of Education in July of 2017 focusing on leadership and leadership development.

Having been in Japan on a mission from 1978-1980 I returned on Feb 9, 1980, and about 5 hours later was engaged to my wife Chauna, we were patient and got married 7 weeks later on March 28, 1980. We are blessed with 6 children born in 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1989, and 1993. 3 Boys, 3 girls with 4 now married, one in Edmonton and our youngest in Lethbridge at University.