A Heartprint on My Journey

Hi Karen!!! Because I know you LOVE warm fuzzies I thought that this one might put a smile on your face! As I look ahead to retirement in the next couple of years I just love that I still have this from you - circa 1998! - encouraging me and supporting me as I started my journey in education. Leadership is about people and from those formative years you helped ensure that kids were always my true north. Thank-you for modelling how to be “in it” with our students, how to leverage their brilliance for co-creating the wildest of visions, how to give space for innovation and dreaming, to stay true to who we are regardless of our “business card,” and to always always... smile and give thanks. From the first time I was blessed to hear your uniquely-you chuckle, you were a heartprint on my journey. And wow did we have some fun together along the way... including rippling out Kagan to colleagues and spreading camp spirit to PHS, AHS, and beyond. I love how a beautiful full circle brought us back together at PPHS this year. Thank-you for your friendship, your genius brain, your hugs, your laugh, and modelling service in leadership. And yes, I still have every camp guide and every warm fuzzy! Know without question that your influence is a legacy we all carry. Thinking of you and love you so much, xoxo Kim