Glen Hansman

NEW) PRESIDENT, BC TEACHERS’ FEDERATION

The Educator Glen Hansman, elected last year to lead the BC Teachers’ Federation, made his name helping to get an anti-homophobia policy adopted by the Vancouver School Board in 2004—a groundbreaking move that has since been copied by boards across Canada. Today, the former special-education teacher and president of the Vancouver Elementary School Teachers’ Association faces his biggest challenge yet: lling 3,000 teaching positions and returning B.C. class sizes to 2002 levels, as ordered last year by the Supreme Court of Canada.