 We've been invited here to the Ministry of Education today. There's 15 groups presenting, they're basically presenting on an innovation grant that they got to try something new to take the lid off the box for something innovative at school. Today we've got 49 educators from across the province, primarily teachers, but we do have a few district staff, a couple of superintendents as well. They're here to talk about some innovations in teaching that they're doing at their schools or across their districts. So last spring, the Ministry offered some small grant funding for districts to apply where they could pitch an idea that is an innovative teaching practice or some sort of a collaborative action research project within their school or within a district, they could collaborate across districts. So they put in their proposals and today is the result. So we've brought them all here today to actually sit down, talk to us. We're going to make sure that we can share it as broadly as we can and more importantly to share with their colleagues. So they're going to get a chance to spend the morning talking about their projects and then the entire afternoon is just sharing time. The goal of today is really collaboration and sharing. Innovation is really an interesting kind of a thing to get your heads around. In terms of trying to do things differently, often things that haven't been done before and trying to think outside the box is often really difficult. We'd like to thank you for that and sort of that courageous patience that you have is trying to move all these various ideas forward. Innovation is the human spirit. It's always looking forward, progressing, trying to do a better job and never just sitting back and sort of resting on your laurels. Changing for the better. That's right, onward and upward. Innovation requires getting people together into groups and creating an environment where they can share and learn from each other. It's not very often that teachers from across the province get to collaborate with other teachers on something as specific as this. There's always opportunities at conferences and different events but to actually sit down and talk about a very specific practice that they're trying in their classroom and say, here's what I did, here's how it went and then here's what I'm planning on doing next. That's really the goal of today is to share and for us, it's our role to make sure we can share it even more broadly. Our district is doing a lot of really, really good things that are being piloted in other districts as well. And if we could get together with other districts like a day like today and learn from them and their experiences, we'd save a lot of wasted time because there's great work that's happening. We don't have to go to the states. We don't have to go abroad. We can look internally. Well, I think the most exciting thing is knowing that our innovative path is a shared path that within the province we are growing innovation together and how exciting to be able to hear from one another and share and make connections.