Port Moody has been my home for over a decade, part of more than 23 years in the Tri-Cities. As a parent and community builder, I know communities are built through careful planning, collaboration, and genuinely listening to people. Our school community deserves this same care.
This October I’m running for Port Moody School Trustee because I want the best for kids and youth in our K-12 public school system. With two decades of experience working in non-profit and community, I bring a thoughtful and informed voice that will work on behalf of Port Moody and the students in SD43.
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Every child in Port Moody deserves a school district that supports them, believes in them, and prepares them for what’s ahead. My priorities are shaped by knowing that good decisions come from working together.
As your trustee, I will bring a collaborative, informed approach that focuses on supporting every student in the classroom, promoting school safety and wellbeing, preparing students for a rapidly changing world, and planning thoughtfully for Port Moody’s growth.
Every learner deserves the resources and support they need to succeed, and this can look different for every child. Some students need extra support to keep up, others need to be challenged to keep growing, and many need varying support along the way. I want to see SD43 continue investing in the staffing, specialists, and classroom supports that allow teachers to effectively support student learning.
This means paying close attention to how resources are distributed across our schools and ensuring students have access to learning resources, programs of choice, and the specialized supports they need.
This includes protecting and growing options in our district like French Immersion, Mandarin Bilingual, Montessori, iHub, and our gifted programs, so families have choices in how their child learns.
I would also like the district to explore new programs of choice, including expanding SD43’s outdoor education beyond grade 10’s COAST program so more students can benefit earlier in their school years from connections with nature.
Every student deserves to learn in a calm, safe classroom. SD43, along with other districts around the province, continue to see a rise in violent incidents both in the classroom and in the school community, including incidents directed at the teachers and EAs working directly with students. Some schools have started building calm rooms, mindfulness spaces, and providing de-escalation training for staff, but SD43 has identified that these efforts are uneven across the district.
As your trustee, I’ll work with the board to invest in what keeps kids and classrooms safe. This includes funded, consistent training for teachers and EAs, and adequate staffing so students in crisis have the right interventions. I’ll also push to strengthen the district’s partnerships with community mental health agencies and other partners so students get the supports they need consistently and early on.
Children learn best when they feel safe, and the adults who care for them deserve that same safety. Safer schools mean a richer learning experience for all students.
The world students are heading into looks nothing like the one most of us grew up in. Technology, careers, and skills that matter in the workplace are shifting quickly, and school programs need to keep pace.
Students need access to real experience and practical skills alongside their academic ones, things like expanded career and trades programs linked to real job opportunities, modern STEM learning, and direct partnerships with post-secondary institutions and industry associations that give students early exposure to future pathways and expanded career options.
I want SD43 to be a district that looks ahead and ensures students leave school ready for what comes next.
Port Moody is growing, and our schools need to grow with the community. As new neighbourhoods like Inlet Centre and Moody Centre take shape, planning for future school capacity must start early and alongside municipal development. It can’t wait until families have already moved in.
Too often, opportunities to build shared benefit into new developments get missed simply because the right conversations didn’t happen early enough. This includes joint-use agreements for gyms and fields, shared child care spaces, or co-located community amenities that serve both students and neighbourhoods. We are missing opportunities to bring more amenities to our community, and I want to make sure these discussions are a priority.
This only works if the school district and it’s trustees have a good working relationships with the community and opportunities to collaborate early on with Municipal leaders, developers and the provincial government. I am committed to keeping these conversations open and productive for our community.
One of the main responsibilities of our school trustees is ensuring every dollar in our school district budget is well spent towards students in the classroom. This requires the school board to ask hard questions about where money is allocated and why, and in making sure decisions are communicated clearly to the public. Families and taxpayers deserve to understand how choices get made and know they are made with the best interest of student learning experience in mind.
Good fiscal management is about more than just balancing a budget. It’s about ensuring we fund the things that matter like strong programs, well-supported teachers, and the diverse student supports children need to succeed.
As school trustee, I am committed to transparency throughout the decision-making process and will advocate for dollars to reach students and classrooms first.
For media mentions and other community involvement, click here, here, or here, or even here. I am an active community leader who wants the very best for Port Moody, our school community, and most of all our youth.
BioBlitz will count the species while the public gets a chance to explore the area to learn about bats and other creatures.
Former BIMES president Tracy Green, who’s helping plan the event, said the study will be carried out at various sites, such as the shoreline, forest, creek and meadows that make up the watershed.
A Port Moody mom who has been advocating for tougher vaping regulations says the province is doing the right thing by boosting taxes on vape products, curtailing marketing to youth and involving young people in anti-vaping programs.
Tracy Green says nicotine addiction among youth is a growing health concern because vape products are so appealing to young people and it’s easy to get hooked.
Tracy Green, who pushed successfully to have School District 43 and Fraser Health hold two parent meetings on vaping in May, said such products should only be sold in specialty shops that are more regulated and fines should be higher for retailers that sell to kids.
