In pottery, we learn from every pot we throw.  The good ones teach us what works and the failed ones teach us what we need to do differently.  But, failure can also inspire us to innovate. Our successes should be celebated, but so should our failures, because success will rarely teach us to reflect, to adapt, and to innovate.  Successes tell us we did well.  Failures help us to adapt and become better. 

Revisiting, reflecting on, and learning from my failures helped me to grow as an educator. The artifact below resulted from a failure I saw in my teaching practices. After taking ETEC 521, Indigeneity, Technology, and Education, I realized that my attempts to Indigenize my courses by adding a few readings about or by Indigenous people was doing very little disrupt the status quo.  In this course, I redesigned a course, framing the entire course through the Medicine Wheel.  

My second artifact is a reflection on the implementation of the course. In 2022, I had the opportunity to present at the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA) Congress.  In my presentation, I reflected on the course and what had worked and what had not.  The artifact I have included here is my conference presentation.