Seven reasons that may help you select Kevin Amboe as one of your votes for Member at Large.

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Core Values, Experience(Teacher, Provincially, Locally),

Leadership, Personal Skills, Financial Understanding

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Core Values

• Every person has equal intrinsic value

• Injustice to any members or group of members impacts us all

• Equal, Equality, Equity are not synonymous

• Commitment to removing barriers

• Words and context are powerful

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Experience as a Teacher

• Elementary Teacher

• Secondary Teacher

• Non Enrolling Teachers supporting students with special needs 

• District Helping Teacher

• Seconded role with ERAC supporting Professional Learning

• Mentor PB 15 SFU program

• Sessional Instructor for SFU Student teachers (2 integrating technology courses)

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Experience as a Provincial Union Activist

• AGM Delegate, Chairperson and Resolutions Committee

• WLC/BAC (PRN, Metro East)

• Local Representative

• CUEBC Past President

• SURT Workshop Facilitator

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Experience as a Local Union Activist

• School Staff Rep at multiple sites

• Local Representative

• Bargaining Co-Chair

• Convention Co-Chair and Supporter

• Grievance Committee

• Several Advisory Committees

• Peer Mediation

• several Ad Hoc committees

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Leadership

• You can't just complain, you have to be part of the solution

• Seek out roles with organizing, mentoring, or mediating

• Committed to action

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Personal Skills

• Listener

• Reflective Thinker

  • examine issues​

  • examine root causes

  • consider the impacts of multiple scenarios

• Doer

• Mentor

• Mediation

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Financial

• Able to juggle numbers / options / scenarios in head and with Excel

• Complete analysis and perspectives on projects

• Experience reviewing local and provincial budgeting

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I am ready to dedicate more of my professional, union activism, and personal time to continuing to grow the BCTF as a member driven organization that considers every member, committee, local, and sub-local as valuable to the whole.