{"id":17,"date":"2026-08-26T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:23:27","slug":"about-laurie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/about-laurie\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT LAURIE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lifetime connected to education and our community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Education has been part of Laurie Szadkowski&#8217;s life for generations. Her great-great-grandparents helped build one of the area&#8217;s first schools near Tugwell Creek in 1899. Her parents were teachers, and Laurie attended Saseenos Elementary and Edward Milne Community School as a student. Her children graduated from schools in Sooke, and she was an active parent volunteer and PAC president. Today, she is proud to be a grandparent of children who are part of the local school system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laurie went on to earn a Bachelor of Education from the University of Victoria in 1996 and a Master of Education in 2006. She spent 25 years serving SD62 (Sooke) as a teacher, vice-principal and principal, including time as District Principal of Indigenous Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LEARNING FROM MANY PERSPECTIVES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laurie&#8217;s experience has given her an understanding of education from many different perspectives: as a student, parent, educator, school administrator and community member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WHAT LAURIE HAS LEARNED<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leadership means listening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good decisions require good questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schools succeed when communities work together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lifetime connected to education and our community. Education has been part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd62.sihota.casa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}