Dr. Tony Rice is the former principal of Tofield School, a grade 5-12 school located in Tofield, Alberta, from 2016-2018 and Central High Sedgewick Public School in Sedgewick, Alberta, a grade 1-12 school for the previous 15 years, both of which are located in Battle River School Division. His first 17 years of teaching were in the small northern Manitoba community of Cranberry Portage at Frontier Collegiate Institute, a publicly funded residential school for remote First Nations communities. In addition to doing workshops for the Alberta Teachers’ Association, he is furthering his work on how school system leadership can more effectively align all professional school partners to better support students in becoming more engaged in their learning and the pivotal role that the teacher-student relationship plays in this work. Recently he has presented workshops on developing sound assessment practices and how to build highly effective collaborative school teams.