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I love that this inquiry has taken you on a journey to figure out what type of leader you want to be.  It makes me think of Sophia's question about teaching primary students about leadership and how its a lifelong journey as many of us are still trying to figure it out ourselves. I am touched by the fact that your inquiry has led to so much self reflection about the type of leader you want to be and  how you want to be  as authentic as possible. Leaders come in so many forms and I think this inquiry is lifelong journey that will lead to so much growth as an educator and as a person!

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What inspired me the most is how courageous it is of you to go on this learning journey in front of your students. There is nothing more powerful than sharing your vulnerabilities with your students and allowing them to see you go through this process! It teaches them the most important lesson of all: learning is a lifelong journey and there is always room for us to change, learn and grow!  Empoweringthespirit.ca is a website that I've used often with my elementary students, it might be a good starting point for you!

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Thank you for sharing your journey with us.  I love that you expressed how starting the processing has led you to so many different (yet positive) directions. Connecting parents to their child's learning journey through simple, manageable activities has so much power.  Parents often don't know where to begin supporting their child, especially during the middle school/high school years, and so  giving them this opportunity to be involved and guiding them through the process is a beautiful thing.  I also think I'll start using, "I can" statements more often in  my class, we are always our worst critic and so that reminder of all the things we can do has so much power!

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I appreciated that you utilized your students' voices and celebrated their unique strengths in your classroom space. As a result it sounds like you were able to create a stronger sense of community. This doesn't happen by chance, and your commitment and being intentional about developing a sense of belonging and community has been fruitful. I can't wait to see what's in store for you next year!

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I was so happy to see how excited you are looking ahead into your future as an educator and embedding Indigenous perspectives into your math classes.
Your comments around decolonization of the way we teach reminded me of SFU's PDP goal of:

Realizing the powerful, and sometimes negative, impact that our Eurocentric education system has had, and continues to have, upon students.

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I loved listening to how your thoughts evolved through your inquiry on what leadership meant to you. I also am inspired and appreciate your desire to explore leadership with women and math!

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It touched me your desire to create an open door policy for your students. This definitely feels like a much more natural approach. I'm sure your students appreciate that! I also love how you put students into flexible groups by including student voice. I especially like how you got students to select partners based on who they felt had strengths that complimented theirs. Training children at young ages to become aware of each other strengths is such a powerful approach! Kudos to you for you all your evident hard work.

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I really love how you dug deep and looked at ways to break down the competencies to create more relevancy and understanding for your students. It definitely is a daunting task as they are big topics with multiple layers. I also appreciate your wonder about parental involvement with the context of assessement and how to include them in such a way that it's not more burdensome to them. You demonstrate that community and interconnectedness is a big part of learning and I'm genuinely inspired by you!

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From listening to your panel share-out today, I really admire your tenacity and resilience to get through some rough patches that surfaced in your class this year. You engaged in some really deep reflection about you, about dance, and about the students that you work with. I think that as teaching is such a relational profession, it becomes so easy to let the instances in our work affect our day-to-day lives and to allow those to take over the space in our hearts that is filled with motivation to move forward with our profession. I, too, have been in a position where I felt that things had to change. I notice your courage and see that you were determined to make something change - but not just in your students, but in you as well. Like I said to you during your presentation: you found your way to develop trust with all your students and I am so happy that you were able to open up dialogue with some of the boys that were part of the tension in your dance class. You trusted them with a gift. You gifted them an offering to reconcile, an offering to listen wholeheartedly and they did not take advantage of that trust as they accepted. So happy that you were able to feel a positive change after being vulnerable and trusting with your students. I'm eager to see if your paths will cross again in another class some day... now THAT would be the ultimate sense of fulfillment and validation.
- Wilson :)

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Something that really touched me about yours is your passion to ignite the leadership within primary students - your students - in which you see almost an "injustice" for. Why shouldn't they be given opportunities to be a leader? Why are they the ones that are left out? You won't have it. You are committed to developing those capacities within them beyond the traditional definitions of what "leaders" typically look like for primary teachers. Your students are lucky to have a teacher that will advocate and give them the many opportunities that we very well know that many would not. You recognize that every one of your students have the ability to soar as a leader - whether they are the compliant or the rebellious ones in our class - a powerful realization for many. I resonate a lot with you in the sense that I believe that many students have the abilities, but just need those guiding people in their lives to give them the repertoire of tools and the language to be successful in whatever realm of learning they are taking part in. So excited about the journey you are having and I can't wait to see how the many activities that you have planned will pan out!
- Wilson :)

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You had a tough year with some students in your class and what touched me was how you resolved it.  You were able to reflect on the situation, and from what you described it seemed like the problem with the boys was more about who they were and less about you.  You were able to overcome this conflict and use it as a teachable moment.  You taught the boys how to rebuild trust, apologize and deal with a problem.  These are great life lessons.  Well done!
-Sophia

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What touched me was the personal connection that you have with your students.  I can really tell that you have fun with your students and that they enjoy being in your class.
Remote learning makes for a not so ideal teaching and learning situation.  As teachers we are missing the instant feedback that you we from a students facial reaction or body language.  The dialogue that we have in our classrooms has turned into a monologue...yet you were able to reflect on your tension and bring the energy back!  Good for you!
-Sophia

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i really love how you spoke about shouldering the load, and how change requires those of us who understand the topic to stand up and invoke change!

"You can not become what you cannot see"
Love it Laida!

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I love that you want to create an anxiety free resource room, for those kids who are the most anxious..

Taking the randomness as well as the friendships out of the group making process, allows us as teachers to focus on specific skills for those kids to work on.

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It touched me your connection between the issue of residential schools and shame that the girl felt towards her culture.

I love this idea of checking your bias! what are the things that we implicitly do.. standing in front of the class, lecturing at students, the way we communicate with their parents / communicate to them in a hierarchy... it goes incredibly deep and it's hard to break away from because we were raised in that same system...

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I loved what you said about making the skill goals explicit at the start of the unit. I find that I learn better myself when I know what skill I'm specifically trying to grow in.

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