The Student Achievement and Well-Being (SAWB) team is responsible for:

  • Ensuring that individual schools and school administrators adhere to the Board’s policies and procedures.
  • Working closely with principals, vice-principals, teachers, students, parents, families and community in families of school groupings to optimize all student’s:
    • Achievement
    • Learning
    • Well-being

On this page you will find:

Associate Director, Student Achievement and Well-being

Alison Gaymes-San Vicente

Administrative Assistant: Leonilda (Nilda) Gil
Email: leonilda_gil@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4219

Responsibilities

  • Student Achievement & Well-Being Team
  • Strategic Planning and Board Improvement and Equity Plan for Student Achievement & Well-Being
  • Research & Organizational Transformation Department

Superintendent – Area 2

Ryan Hume

Administrative Assistant: Jennifer Boyer
Email: jennifer_boyer@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4456

Secondary Schools Elementary Schools
Bluevale Collegiate Institute Doon Public School
Eastwood Collegiate Institute Hillside Public School
Forest Heights Collegiate Institute Howard Robertson Public School
Grand River Collegiate Institute Park Manor Public School
Huron Heights Secondary School Queensmount Public School
Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School Stanley Park Public School
Preston High School Sunnyside Public School
Westheights Public School
William G Davis Public School
Wilson Avenue Public School

Responsibilities

  • Co-Instructional – Waterloo County Secondary School Athletic Association (WCSSAA) and Waterloo Region District Senior Physical Health Education Association (WRDSPHEA)
  • Critical Events Response
  • Police Services Liaison
  • Threat Risk Assessment
  • Safe Schools and Progressive Intervention & Discipline
  • School Learning and Improvement Process
  • Secondary Staffing/OSSTF-BUAC Liaison

Superintendent – Area 5

Bobbie Chatha

Administrative Assistant: Sheri Martin-Crovetto
Email: sheri_martin-crovetto@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4451

Elementary Schools
Glencairn Public School
Oak Creek Public School
Pioneer Park Public School
Queen Elizabeth Public School
Rockway Public School
W T Townshend Public School

Responsibilities

  • Curriculum Kindergarten to Grade 12
  • Early Years Lead; DECE Liaison
  • EQAO
  • French as a Second Language/French Immersion
  • Healthy Schools
  • Kindergarten to Grade 12 Literacy and Numeracy
  • Multilingual Learners
  • PD Days/School Year Calendar Co-Lead
  • School Learning and Improvement Process

Superintendent – Area 6

Michelle Newlands

Administrative Assistant: Julianne Amaral
Email: julianne_amaral@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4208

Elementary Schools
Abraham Erb Public School Laurelwood Public School
Conestogo Public School Linwood Public School
Driftwood Park Public School Mary Johnston Public School
Edna Staebler  Public School Meadowlane Public School
Elizabeth Ziegler Public School N A MacEachern Public School
Empire Public School Northlake Woods Public School
Floradale Public School Riverside Public School
Forest Hill Public School Southridge Public School
John Darling Public School St. Jacobs Public School
John Mahood Public School Westmount Public School
Keatsway Public School Westvale Public School

Responsibilities

  • Food4Kids and Nutrition for Learning – WRDSB Co-Lead
  • Indigenous, Black and Racialized Administrator Mentorship Support (IBRAMS)
  • Indigenous, Black and Racialized Teachers (IBRT) Aspiring Leadership and Mentorship
  • Parent, Family, School Community Engagement
  • Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) and Waterloo Region Assembly of Public School Councils (WRAPSC)
  • Principal capacity building in support of Indigenous, Black and Racialized Vice-Principals
  • School Learning and Improvement Process
  • Teacher Education Candidate Liaison

Superintendent – Area 7

Jodi Albrecht

Administrative Assistant: Jennifer Crawford
Email: jennifer_crawford@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4235

Elementary Schools Rosemount Family of Schools
King Edward Public School Rosemount School
Margaret Avenue Public School Education and Community Partnership Programs (ECPP)
Prueter Public School Alternative Education & Choices
Trillium Public School Summer School
Elementary Summer Learning
Continuing Education – International & Indigenous Languages

Responsibilities

  • Accommodation Steering Committee
  • Educational Assistants Association (EAA) Liaison
  • Family and Children Services Liaison
  • Home Instruction/Independent Learning Centre
  • Professional Student Service Personnel (PSSP) Liaison
  • School Learning and Improvement Process
  • Special Education
  • Special Education Advisory Committee
  • Student Mental Health & Well-Being

Superintendent – Area 8

Crissa Hill

Administrative Assistant: Lisa Cook
Email: lisa_cook@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4215

Administrative Assistant – Experiential Learning and Outdoor Education: Rose Di Martino
Email: rose_dimartino@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4438

Secondary Schools Elementary Schools
Waterloo Collegiate Institute Cedarbrae Public School
MacGregor Public School
Winston Churchill Public School

Responsibilities

  • Administrator Onboarding – Principals and Vice-Principals
  • Aspiring Leaders
  • Board Leadership Learning and Development
  • Equity and Inclusion Advisory Group
  • Equity & Inclusion Team
  • Experiential Learning (Co-Op, OYAP, SHSM)
  • Indigenous Education Advisory Committee
  • Indigenous Learning Team
  • Mentorship (AMP)
  • New Teacher Induction Program (NTIP)
  • Outdoor Education
  • PD Days/School Year Calendar Co-Lead
  • School Learning and Improvement Process
  • Student Success Lead

Executive Manager, Research & Organizational Transformation

David Lane

Secretary: Dawn Raines
Email: dawn_raines@wrdsb.ca
Phone: 519-570-0003 ext. 4132

Responsibilities

  • Board Improvement and Equity Plan
  • Monitoring of Strategic Plan
  • Safe, Caring and Inclusive Schools Survey
  • Student Census
  • Workforce Census
  • Student Equity Index