Gibbon and Preston join TW team

June 14, 2011
Two new executive staff ­officers will be joining the ATA’s Teacher Welfare (TW) program area. Chris Gibbon and Margaret Preston were appointed to the positions by Provincial Executive Council and will join the Association August 1, 2011. Both will bring extensive and relevant experience to the program area, garnered through their teaching careers and Association involvement at the local and provincial levels.

During his 23-year career, ­Gibbon has taught at the junior high and senior high levels, in a number of subjects (including English, social studies, science and music). He has been employed by four school jurisdictions, spending the past eight years with the Prairie Land Regional Division. Gibbon has held a number of positions that have most certainly developed the skills he will need in Teacher Welfare. At the local level, he was vice-president of the Woodland Rivers Local and a member of the economic policy committee for the Prairieland Local. At the provincial level, his experience includes being a member of the Teacher Welfare Services Committee and a member of the Economic Consultants Corps. Gibbon earned his BEd from the University of Alberta.

Like Gibbon, Preston comes to the Association well qualified for the duties she will assume later this summer. In her nearly 30-year career with the Northern Gateway Regional Division, she taught junior high and high school social studies. She was president of her local for two terms and, for the past 17 years, has been either an economic policy committee chair or a negotiating subcommittee chair. At the provincial level, she has been a member of the Association’s Economic Consultants Corps. Adding to the breadth of Preston’s experience is her eight-year service as a trustee on the board of the Alberta School Employee Benefit Plan (ASEBP). Preston earned her BEd from the University of New Brunswick and an MA in leadership training from Royal Roads University.

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