CASS President’s Message

The College of Alberta School Superintendents is the professional voice of Alberta’s system educational leaders, whose mission is to build system leadership excellence to ensure quality school leadership, quality teaching, and optimum learning for all students in Alberta.

CASS works to foster system excellence leveraging influence with government and key partners, and a strategic focus on strengthening leadership of its members as guided by the Leadership Quality Standard, the Superintendent Leadership Quality Standard and organizational values shared by its members. CASS and its predecessor organizations have served as the voice for Alberta’s school system leaders since the 1960s. Throughout its history, CASS has been an active presence in Alberta’s education system and has worked with its education partners on numerous discussions and initiatives to proactively strengthen and transform Alberta’s world-class education system. Since 2013, CASS has seen a significant increase in its membership, becoming more representative of publicly funded education in Alberta.

For more than 15 years, our organization has acted as a professional body and modeled that public good is enhanced when system leaders’ decisions about what ongoing knowledge and abilities to apply, results in quality school leadership, quality teaching, and optimum learning for all students in our school authorities. In the spring of 2021 Bill 55: College of Alberta School Superintendent received royal assent and the College of Alberta School Superintendents was granted professional status within legislation for full implementation on September 2022.

On behalf of the CASS Board of Directors, I extend appreciation to every CASS member, past and present, for their service to and support of students, staff, school divisions, communities, and CASS system leaders around the province.

Sincerely,
Dr. Wilco Tymensen