Superintendent's Summer Message to Families

June 24, 2026 

Dear Chilliwack Families, 

As we bring the 2025–26 school year to a close, I want to extend my sincere gratitude to the families of Chilliwack for the care, encouragement, and steady support you have provided to students throughout the year. A strong school district is built through relationships, and I am deeply grateful for the trust, partnership, and shared responsibility that continue to shape our work together. 

Across the Chilliwack School District, we remain committed to creating learning communities where every student feels known, valued, included, and supported to thrive. Our work is grounded in the belief that student success is about more than achievement alone. It is also about belonging, dignity, well-being, identity, purpose, and the conditions that allow each young person to grow with confidence, curiosity, courage, and compassion. 

This year, our schools and departments continued to bring our Strategic Plan to life in meaningful ways. Through the daily work of educators, support staff, school leaders, district staff, and Rights Holders, we have seen powerful examples of literacy, numeracy, well-being, and successful transitions in action. Families can see many of these examples in our Strategic Plan Storybook, which shares stories from across the Chilliwack School District and highlights the thoughtful, relational, and innovative work happening in classrooms and schools. These stories remind us that the Strategic Plan is not simply a document. It is a shared commitment, lived each day by people who care deeply about students and help create places where young people feel safe, valued, challenged, and known. 

I also want to acknowledge an important accomplishment of the Board of Education this year. Since December 2020, the District has undertaken a comprehensive review of all Board policies and administrative procedures to ensure they remain current, functional, and accessible. Building on that foundational work, the Board directed the next phase of review through a barrier scan of the Education Policy Advisory Committee policies in Sections 200 and 300 of the Policy Manual. This work reflects our ongoing responsibility to ensure that policy supports fairness, accessibility, inclusion, and clear decision-making across the system. 

June is always a special time in our district, as we gather to celebrate our graduating students. Graduation represents 13 years of learning, growth, perseverance, friendship, challenge, and change. Each student crossed the stage carrying a unique story, and each one reminded us of the collective effort it takes to support young people as they step into the future. 

I also want to take this opportunity to thank and honour the staff members who are retiring this year. We are deeply grateful for their service, care, and commitment to students, colleagues, families, and the broader district community. Their contributions have strengthened our schools and enriched the lives of many. 

Thank you for your continued partnership and for the many ways you support the students of the Chilliwack School District. Our shared work matters. As summer approaches, I hope families find moments of rest, reflection, and reconnection. May the weeks ahead offer time to slow down, enjoy one another, and appreciate the beauty of the community we call home. 

Sincerely, 

Rohan Arul-pragasam 

Superintendent of Schools

Chilliwack School District