The retirement of the NESD's Director of Education Don Rempel (front row, second left) will be one of two massive changes for the NESD in less than a year (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff).

By Aaron Schulze

NESD's Future Look

NESD’s director of education preparing for retirement

Oct 28, 2019 | 8:49 AM

Each year in October, the North East School Division’s (NESD) director of education shares their professional goals with the Board of Education.

When Don Rempel, NESD’s director of education, presented his goals for the 2019-20 academic year, it was one item aimed for 2020-21 that drew interest: “To provide for the on-board and orientation of a new Board of Education and to assist in the transition to a new Director of Education.”

Rempel said he’ll retire at the end of the 2020-21 academic year.

“I’m on a term contract that ends in June 2021, so the board started planning for a recruitment process and they’ll be making decisions around recruitment of a new director over the next little while,” Rempel said. “I’ll be working with the newly elected board from November (2020) until the end of June (2021), so I’m mindful that I should be prepared for next year to do some governance work and support the transition to a new CEO.

“Both things will happen within the last year of my contact. I’m looking at what I need to do this year to prepare for that year, just as the board is.”

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Rempel has served as the NESD’s director of education since August 2009.

The next school board election in Saskatchewan will take place on Nov. 9, 2020.

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