BIOGRAPHY
Adam Grabowski has been a classroom teacher with the Park West School Division for the last 22 years. His teaching assignments have primarily been in the Grade 5-8 subject areas, but have included Grade 3-4 and 9-10. Adam has been involved in coaching at the Middle Years age group and referees middle and senior high volleyball and soccer.
Adam has served as a member of the Provincial Executive since 2004, most recently chairing the Professional Development Standing Committee and co-chairing the Professional Autonomy Ad-hoc Committee. Adam has also served as chair of the Aboriginal Voice and Action Ad-hoc committee, Structure Review Ad-hoc committee, Workplace Safety and Health Standing Committee and as liaison to the Primary Prevention team.
Adam has been an active member in his local Association since 1995. Currently, he holds the position of PWTA President and has been the Collective Bargaining chair and Treasurer for his Association. Adam continues to believe strongly that as a unified organization, the Manitoba Teachers’ Society must continue to speak for all of its members, to continue to work at improving teachers’ rights and benefits and to be available for its members.
Adam’s personal interests include the study of Wado-Kai karate, downhill skiing, golfing and being a hockey dad. Adam and his family are strong supporters of the Canadian and Manitoban Down syndrome Societies and were one of the founding families of the Western Manitoba Down syndrome Society.
ELECTION STATEMENT
2010- 2011 will be a very significant year for The Manitoba Teachers’ Society. With internal discussions on the future of MTS, public requests for accountability and reporting, and government officials discussing the costs of education in an open forum, we need unity to protect what we’ve gained and to build on our successes.
Communication is Key. We need to speak with government and challenge them to improve legislation that benefits our members! We need to work with our educational partners to express a message of the strength in Public Schools! But most importantly, we need to have open, 2 way and effective dialogue with our members!
Listening to each other; expressing our viewpoints; and respecting our differences is what gives The Manitoba Teachers’ Society the effectiveness and influence it has with the public, with Government and with other educational partners. The more we work towards One Voice, our Strength shows through all situations that affect our members! With One Voice, we can express our concerns to those who have the ability to make changes and the changes will come!
The Manitoba Teachers’ Society strength is not in its elected officials! It’s not in the people who work within its walls! Our Strength lies with its 15 000 individual members Standing Strong; Standing United; Standing as One! Our leadership must continue listening to those individual members to work towards One Voice, One Strength!
