Personal effectiveness: Pre-emerging.
Rationale: As an educator, I am beginning to understand my own leadership style and stepping out of my comfort zone by engaging with individuals in a leadership role.
Goal: Become a leader that is able to positively engage with stakeholders about social inequalities in schools.
Communication: Pre-emerging.
Rationale: I am learning new vocabulary and language to express social injustice that exists within public schools in the state of Montana.
Goal: Communicate messages that will advance systemic changes with the community.
Explore and Challenge Inequity: Emerging
Rationale: I acknowledge that my own background places into how I engage as an educator and the individuals that I work with.
Goal: I want to continue to collaborate with stakeholders and seek and create equitable practices for the students and their families.
Coaching and Mentoring: Pre-emerging.
Rationale: I am new to mentoring on a professional level. I am growing more aware of the importance of relationships and how those relationships impact the working environment.
Goal: Develop courses or trainings in which I can continue to mentor individuals who work closely with my students and their families.
Recess aids, parents, 5th grade teachers, MBI team, preschool teachers, administrator, neighborhood council members.
Describe your work with diverse stakeholders. Explaining how historical trauma and poverty continues to impact families to was met with some skepticism by stakeholders but also understanding and compassion by different stakeholders.
Describe your awareness of those from different cultures, experiences and background inform your chosen project. My own family background contains historical trauma and forming relationships with stakeholders was healing for me and also allowed individuals who come from the dominant white society to empathize with my family trauma.
Brown Bag Activity from Module 1
Article "Diversity and Design: How we can shape a more inclusive industry? Module 3
Implicit bias test Module 2. This is a work in progress. I am much more aware of my own personal bias that I carry with me in life and in the classroom.