On The Brink | Cindy Heitman | Episode
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Cindy Heitman joined CNC in 2023 as the College's ninth President and CEO. She is first female to be named the permanent President of CNC.
Cindy is committed to:
1) Advancing CNC’s priorities in the lhulh whuts’odutel’eh | Learning Together strategic plan including learning across a lifetime, student success focused education and training, organizational strength and agility, and community engagement and partnerships;
2) Expanding on CNC’s commitment to truth and reconciliation with a focus on Indigenizing the college and inspiring the next generation of Indigenous leaders; and
3) Building partnerships and potential across the region served by CNC, which includes campuses in Burns Lake, Fort St. James, Mackenzie, Prince George, Quesnel and Vanderhoof.
Cindy brings to the College her experiences as a CNC university studies student, an educational leader with a career spanning three decades, and a dedicated community member on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation. Cindy career experience includes eight years as a school-based educator, 15 years as a school and district leader, and five years as a senior leader.
Cindy is committed to the North and is passionate about education. Ms. Heitman has fostered partnerships and connections in communities. She has held positions on a variety of boards and committees at the executive level locally and provincially.
Cindy holds a Master’s degree in educational leadership and administration from Simon Fraser University as well as a Bachelor of general studies in education with a minor in learning disabilities.
John, your stories of failures feel close to home for me. I do believe I am undiagnoseD ADHD. I attended CNC around 15 years ago for the lisenced practical nursing program. I did well mostly, with a ton of extra work, but in the end I failed one portion due to the high stress and it seemed no matter how hard I ran to keep up with my classmates I could never catch them. I failed my final practicum. An instructor pushed me to speak to the dean at CNC and they worked with me to become a care aide. I did this for around 13 years quite successfully and I was quite good at this work and happy. I do wish at the time there was an opportunity to return to finish the final practicum because I probably would have succeeded the second time around.
Now I am with sd57 and now as an educator I am finding myself in so many of our learners and I am making it my mission to encourage them to push to achieve despite their struggles, and reminding them there is value in all sorts of jobs they may not have considered.
And all the things you speak of in micro certifications!! Wow if I could take a step forward instead of sideways in my career! I know I am smarter and more capable than the job I am in now, but there's simply no way I can afford an entire degree. Every belt loop has been tightened and time is linear. There were no micro-certs for a care aide. There are no micro-certs for an EA. Those jobs are run by systems that place a strict heirarchy on employees so they cannot grow.
26' right on! That's why we did Wood Magic with a class of 3/4th graders and they loved it!
Carpentry can use a CNC router as well. Can't embrace mass timber construction without one.