David Holland (Non-Parent Director) – is a retired educator with more than 40 years of highly varied experience. He has been intimately involved in gifted education for half that time, including teaching junior and senior high Humanities courses in both the GATE program for the Calgary Board of Education and at Westmount Charter School. David was the Learning Commons Coordinator at Westmount’s mid-high for two years before he retired. He served the CBE as an AISI Learning Leader, coaching teachers to improve their assessment practices and their pedagogy, and as the system specialist for gifted education. Working in other jurisdictions with many gifted students in both congregated and inclusive settings makes David aware of how special Westmount’s nuanced understanding of those needs is. David welcomes the opportunity to extend his previous experience as a Westmount Board member (2007-09) and as a member of Westmount’s staff (2014-19) by contributing his energy and understanding to Westmount’s current board and community.