By Bill Hutchins
with photography by Ian MacAlpine
Krishna Burra is a lifelong educator who experienced a trial by fire when he first assumed the top leadership role within the Kingston-area public school system.
As society was starting to shut down at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Krishna was thrust into a new realm of crisis management that taught him to be much more flexible and adaptable than ever before. “Part of my role was to maintain calm, and to encourage people not to panic.”
Over five years into his role as Director of Education with the Limestone District School Board, Krishna can now look back on those frantic days with a certain sense of pride and accomplishment over lessons learned as he guided staff, students and schools through cycles of lockdowns and coronavirus outbreaks.
Rising to the top of public school administration could be best described as one of the many “sliding door” moments Krishna has embraced during his lengthy career. In fact, you could say he went to school and never really left.
Born in Kingston in 1972, Krishna was the eldest of two siblings. . .
