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Welcome to a new season of the WAB Podcast, with your brand new host, Ellen Schliebitz! In today's episode, we catch up with WAB's senior leadership to find out what there is to look forward to in the upcoming school year.

Listen in as Dr. Marta Medved Krajnovic and Stephen Taylor offer us a glimpse into their plan for the year ahead and the critical part that students, teachers, staff, parents, and alumni played in developing it. We take a look at the core tenets of sustainability, inclusivity, wellbeing, and innovation that permeate every level of the strategic framework for 2022 and beyond and find out how WAB is walking the walk with 'IDEAS'. To learn more about how we are guiding the work of our school and community to meet the future needs of our learners and helping them build knowledge, competencies, and dispositions that they can use to make a difference, both within and beyond the walls of the WAB campus, make sure to tune in today!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Looking back at the results of the 2022 school year before we look to the future.
• How WAB maintained such high academic standards, despite the hurdles of COVID.
• The key role that community voices and students played in developing the strategic framework for 2022 and beyond.
• Ways that the core values of the school are affirmed, amplified, and developed.
• "Walking the walk" when it comes to inclusivity and environmental sustainability at WAB.
• Practical examples of how these emerging themes will be implemented at WAB.
• Creating new IDEAS: Inclusion through Diversity, Equity, Anti-racism, and Social justice.
• How day-to-day teaching and learning contribute to our 'portraits' of WAB Alumni.
• The innovation and diversity that new hires will bring to WAB in the upcoming school year.
• Highlights from the WAB Recruitment Fair.
• A look at how remote learning will evolve in a post-pandemic environment.