DPAC Executive Nomination: Ian Rowe

Ian Rowe has been nominated to the DPAC executive by the Lord Roberts Elementary PAC. His nomination will be voted on at our AGM, June 23rd.

BIO:
As far back as Ian can remember dinner table conversation has centred on education. His parents and step-sister have all been teachers, his step-dad was the president of the Alberta Teachers Union and his mom developed provincial standards and testing for Social Studies and English in Alberta. Since she led the provincial standard exams he grew up picking up elastics in the provincial marking centre while teachers and Ministry of Education employees worked around him.

As a parent Ian has spent 6 years on his son’s school’s PAC, including a three year term as PAC chair. In this time (and with the help of many volunteer parents) their school has established an annual FunFest, delivered annual welcome to school tours, set up division reps, increased PAC participation through covid, fought to have all teachers and admin receive diversity and bias training, successfully fundraised to install modern teaching equipment in every classroom, and more. For the last two years he has been leading the parent community’s drive to change the school’s name, as it is currently named after a man made famous for using concentration camps in South Africa.

Outside of elementary school Ian coaches soccer and is a leader with 20 years of experience in leadership positions at Earls, Apple retail and now BCLC. He is focused on product management and customer experience delivered through the development and success of his teams.