Reflect

Competencies - Showing Growth

Throughout the TLI process, I have grown as an individual, a teacher, and a colleague. This process showed me ways I can be a leader without seeking an administrative role, and has given me the confidence I needed to start impacting change in my community.

Interpersonal Effectiveness

I now place myself at Performing in this competency progression because I am serving as a support for others as I have built more trusting relationships through this process. Even though my project did not get very far, I pivoted to address more immediate challenges and had people looking to me for guidance throughout the closure as they knew me to be a person they could trust (and being tech savvy might have helped a bit too!). Evidence of that growth is found below in an email sent to me after the first meeting of the committee by a fellow teacher.

Group Processes

The above evidence also shows how I grew as a leader of a group during this process. I now place myself at Performing in this competency progression because I am creating new groups to address existing problems, and facilitating discussion and growth within those groups. We would have been offering solutions to the existing challenge if the committee was able to meet several more times but we did not, so I would place myself at Performing rather than Transforming.

Explore and Challenge Inequity

I now place myself at Performing in this competency progression because I'm not only identifying situations of inequity in my setting, but I am also responding to this issue in what I hope will be an effective manner. I formed a committee to educate others about the challenge involving inequity in our Kindergarten classroom, and that committee would have started to respond to this challenge if given the time. Hopefully we can respond more proactively this next school year.

Advocacy

I now place myself at Performing in this competency progression because I was facilitating conversations with multiple stakeholders about how to change current policy to better reflect the needs of our students. We had looked at the school board's policy, and were starting to brainstorm and draft how we would change it for the better. Again, hopefully this process can continue next fall.