Posted on by Angela Mantie

Urgent vs Important – Reflections on the return to school

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Question 1: During the first face to face we used the language of Urgent vs Important to help frame our discussions and thinking around the use TIME. Reflect on why you joined Cohort 21 and your professional goals for this year. Now that the year has begun and you have met your students what IMPORTANT  goal might you like to address and leverage this community to get support with.

Question 2: Which of the Season 10 Strands did you choose and why? Share what you feel is both urgent and important about it for you and your school at the moment and some of the questions you have around moving forward. Feel free to change strands should you want to.

I was attracted to Cohort 21 as a place to connect and interact with folks who are in a space and place to challenge and broaden their thinking, while supporting each other on their learning journeys. I was thrilled to learn there was a cohort of individuals who were dedicated to setting time aside to delve deeper into their practice. In relation to Urgent vs Important, I believe Cohort 21 will offer me the opportunity to set aside dedicated time to make sure I will be held accountable to focus on the Important. I also look forward to the feedback I hope to receive from colleagues to help broaden my thinking.  

There have been a couple of things that have been swimming around in my head for the past few years. It was on a drive home this past week that I started to see how these ideas actually were intersecting with each other. Although I started in the EDIJ strand, it seems like I am wanting to jump into the strand associated with Leadership and Wellness. It seems like wellness will continue to be a consistent, urgent and important aspect of schooling moving forward. I believe, as of right now, my goals are situated around  answer the following questions:

  1.  How and to what effect might knowing about Indigenous leadership frameworks impact how we lead in schools?
  2.  How and to what effect might knowing about Indigenous constructs related to wellness impact school wellness.

 

 

 

8 Replies to “Urgent vs Important – Reflections on the return to school”

  2. Hi Angela, I think these JEDI goals are wonderful and I think that they are very admirable! It’s fascinating to learn more about different leadership frameworks and I’m excited to hear more as you learn.

  3. Great post @amantie, and I really like that you’ve highlighted why you joined: “I believe Cohort 21 will offer me the opportunity to set aside dedicated time to make sure I will be held accountable to focus on the Important.” and we hope that this holds true for both the F2F sessions and the events that happen between the F2F sessions with our coaches and facilitators.

    You have supplied two very important questions, and I’d love to chat with you more about my learnings of indigenous ways that impact my own leadership role. I can suggest, right off the top, Richard Wagmese writings and reflections. I have found them both profound and grounding.

    See you soon,
    Garth.

  4. Thank you Garth. This has already been an enlightening journey thus far. I would love to chat to you further and will add Richard to my list of individuals to check out.

    Take care,
    Angela

  5. Wow @amantie! What an exciting journey you have laid out in front of you! I would love to hear more about this and I’m sure we can connect you with the right people who will help to extend your ideas.

    Alvin Toffler’s quote comes to mind “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.” It is clear that we can all stand to unlearn and relearn as a way to shed some of our bias that doesn’t serve us or others.

    One Drum – by Richard Wagmese is a book that was recommended by @gvogt and I am just starting it and loving it. I know there is a heavy First People’s leadership at Rosseau Lake College and I am sure he would be happy to chat.

    These are great provocations and as a leadership junkie as well, I can’t wait to learn and listen to what you discover.

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