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Listener: Engages with the story of learning for self and others with compassion and empathy.

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Listener: Engages with the story of learning for self and others with compassion and empathy.

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The other side of engaging with dissonance and fierce conversations is ensuring that I am open to what I can learn from those conversations. It is easy to be 'right,' it is less easy to realize that maybe you need to re-think your stance and look at it from other perspectives.

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Communicator: Communicates effectively using a variety of media. 

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Communicator: Communicates effectively using a variety of media. 

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I feel my portfolio demonstrates this competency very well.

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Activator: Leads formally and informally. Influencer: Acknowledges the influence of power and privilege; actively works towards greater equity.

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Activator: Leads formally and informally. Influencer: Acknowledges the influence of power and privilege; actively works towards greater equity.

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I have worked to engage my colleagues in my work this year, and I have worked hard to demonstrate the importance of emphasizing and embedding learning skill development throughout the delivery of curricular outcomes.

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Courageous: Recognizes and engages with dissonance.

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Courageous: Recognizes and engages with dissonance.

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I feel all of us in the only completely online COVID MEDL cohort demonstrated extreme courage throughout these two years. Simply finishing this program exemplifies courage.

I, myself, am now even more willing to engage with those crucial fierce conversations about what is best for the learners in my context. I am not afraid to question those making the big decisions.

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Ethical: Is an ethical, reflective learner, practitioner, leader. 

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Ethical: Is an ethical, reflective learner, practitioner, leader. 

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The ethics course and learning to view my work and the work of those around me through the ethical lens, while still a work in progress for me, has been invaluable learning. The REB process reminded me that I am not an island in my work and to always consider the risks to those around me.

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Informed: Is inquiry-oriented, curious, engaged, well-read and familiar with academic literature that informs their practice and enhances understanding of education systems.

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Informed: Is inquiry-oriented, curious, engaged, well-read and familiar with academic literature that informs their practice and enhances understanding of education systems.

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Engaging with research and the research process over the past two years has reminded me to always be open to new learnings, even those that are not formally published or reviewed works. Stories and interviews also enable valuable learning--we can learn as much from the people we are surrounded by as we can from the academic researchers.

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The purpose of this padlet was to synthesize my learning for element 5 into a multi-media presentation. You can click on each of the elements to open them for further exploration.

The photograph in the background is one I took last fall on a reflective hike with some of my fellow educators. We engaged in rich conversations about teaching, learning, and equity while admiring the beautiful surroundings.

The photo shows the golden larch trees at Chester Lake in Alberta. Golden larches are a rare kind of deciduous conifer tree that regrows green needles every spring after they are shed the previous fall. In Southern Alberta, they exist at high elevations close to the timberline. They are a rather non-descript evergreen during the spring and summer months but shine through in the fall when their needles change into a beautiful golden yellow. To me, they are a metaphor for my transformative growth over the past two years.

Larches are also interesting because of a distinct mutualistic symbiosis that exists between the larches' roots and some species of mycorrhizal fungi. This reciprocity mirrors the relationships I have built with my students. I have helped them build critical learning skills and they have helped me reflect upon my journey.

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My first MEDL activity-Learning Map: July 2020

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My first MEDL activity-Learning Map: July 2020

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This was a bit uncomfortable for me. As a concrete-sequential learner, activities like this force me to stretch. Plus, I suck at drawing...
Definitely something I want to use in my classroom and with colleagues.

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Commitment to the Future--Learning Map May 2022

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Commitment to the Future--Learning Map May 2022

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The very first learning that I engaged in with the MEDL program was the learning map process, so I decided to end my MEDL work at the beginning.

After looking back upon my learning over the past two years, I decided to create a final learning map that demonstrates my newfound strengths and values, which are represented by the thicker arrows, as well as areas for future growth, which are represented by the thinner arrows.

Two years ago I found engaging in this process very cringy and uncomfortable as, being primarily a concrete-sequential learner, I was not a particularly reflective person at the time. After forcing myself to wholly engage in the method and the concept of growth mindset, I knew that the learning that came out of the mapping process would become the seed of my reflective growth over the next two years; additionally, learning maps became the basis of my work in my classroom around self-regulated learning skill development.

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By shannon donnelly

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My Journey Bundle My Journey Bundle I was inspired to reflect upon my journey bundle after our key note address by Rob Manikwa in our March 2022 conference. I wrote a blog post about it, and the following is part of what I wrote. Even though Rob was referencing a theoretical