{"id":2283,"date":"2016-02-29T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insideout.insidewp.test\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2021-07-07T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T21:27:08","slug":"ground-control-to-major-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/2016\/02\/29\/ground-control-to-major-tom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Control to Major Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ground control to Major Tom\u2026Ground control to Major Tom\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Hopefully by now, as a reader, you have started to hum the 1969 pop hit, \u201cSpace Oddity\u201d by David Bowie and if you really enjoyed that genre and type of music you are well into the second verse in your mind by now\u2026<\/p>\n

This is the song that as entire staff community, we were blessed to have been sung to by, quite possibly, the most famous Canadian of our time: Colonel Chris Hadfield, at the Federation of Independent Schools Association (FISA)<\/a> Conference in early February.<\/p>\n

Inspired\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

While many school families were enjoying the extended Family Day weekend, our staff attended a two day conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre (a treat unto itself) with 5,100 other Independent school faculty to hear from leaders in education and be inspired by people like Chris Hadfield. From everything that I could tell, the staff came away inspired and appreciative of the conference. But the highlight was definitely Chris Hadfield\u2014he stole the show!<\/p>\n

We spent the better part of two days:<\/p>\n