Weaving New Stories
Secondary school students have well documented dips in belonging and secondary school structures are notoriously difficult to shift in ways that can transformatively address this lack of belonging. In this peek into her dissertation, Lynn offers leaders a pathway through this complex context as they strive to ensure all learners thrive. The frameworks she draws together will be especially helpful.
The legacy of storying with a dash of micro-management!
In this narrative exploration of the power and legacy of storytelling, Geoff shares candid stories of his own learning throughout a powerful inquiry into relationship building with the sna’naw’as, the Nanoose First Nation.
Transforming Together for Equity, Well-being and Decolonization
With her eye and heart toward equity for all students, Terry Taylor uses her organizational improvement plan to address the need to transform the educational system with decolonizing leadership and praxes.
Weaving the Story of Self into Transformative Leadership
Nicole Davey shows how Indigenous ways of knowing and being create and amplify powerful leadership models to enable deep and meaningful change in education. This plan is meant to guide transformative change in the K–12 education system, and, fittingly, it begins with the critical examination of self.
Developing Comprehensive Indigenous Education Programs through Meso Level Leadership to Promote Indigenous Student Success
In her organizational improvement plan, Lynne shows how meso-level leaders committed to establishing equity and inclusion in the K-12 school system can create systemic change.
Learning Journey Towards Reconciliation: Developing Teacher Self-Efficacy
With her thinking and her heart rooted in social justice and the recognition of the responsibility placed on educators from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Birgitte Biorn maps a route towards transformative shifts in teaching practice to place Indigenous perspectives and pedagogy at the forefront.
Initial Steps Towards an Indigenous Centric School
Principal David Coats positions himself as a learner as he shares small changes his school is making to centre Indigenous knowledge systems. This piece will cause you to wonder what small steps you might take on this important journey.
A Million Little Positives
What happens when a school gives students cameras and an invitation to tell stories of the places they feel safe at school? Join Jennelle Kresak in this appreciative inquiry into the relationship between students and the stories of place.
Truth and Reconciliation: Authenticity, Accountability and Humility
In this poetic and candid exploration of Truth and Reconciliation, Lori Burger offers a model for truth and reconciliation that invites both an inward and an outward journey.
A Weaving of Equity
Join Indigenous Educator and Leader Heidi Wood in a video of her sharing a shawl she wove as a physical act of her learning and reflections from TELP. In creating this piece, Wood models her own learning and offers an invitation to us to consider how we might best engage authentically in equity work.