Close Up Radio Spotlights Educational Leadership Coach Jordan Tinney

Surrey, BC – Jordan Tinney serves as superintendent and CEO of the Surrey school district, where he is responsible for overseeing the education of more than 75,000 students, as well as the district’s 12,000 employees.

“In my role, you're only as good as the people around you, so I spend a lot of time developing the people I support and who support me on a daily basis,” says Tinney. “What I wanted to do was develop a coaching organization dedicated to building the capacity of everyone around you.”

Today, in addition to his role as superintendent, Tinney is an educational leadership coach who supports individuals in private industry and people at the district level in senior leadership, like teachers, principals, educational nonprofits.

“At the end of the day, I'm a teacher too. We may have different positions, but I have the same daily struggles and challenges,” says Tinney. “I believe the more that I can be an effective coach, the better my interactions in the workplace, and the more I can help those around me. I try to treat as many conversations as I can like a coaching conversation.”

According to Tinney, it's not so much about the work as it is about the relationships surrounding the work.

Tinney says that in education, you have to love kids and community and you have to love learning.

“We need to return to the learning agenda,” says Tinney. “If we live in that world where learning is always a good thing, every day is fulfilling.

For more information, visit www.jordantinney.org