{"id":154,"date":"2024-10-26T16:40:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T20:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/?p=154"},"modified":"2024-10-26T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T20:40:27","slug":"c21-season-13-urgent-important-meaningful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/2024\/10\/26\/c21-season-13-urgent-important-meaningful\/","title":{"rendered":"C21 Season 13 &#8211; Urgent, Important &amp; Meaningful!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Urgent vs Important<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year I&#8217;ve come back to Cohort 21 as a coach. I felt like the face-to-face sessions and this community helped to motivate and inspire me to focus on continuous improvement of my practice and program(s). I wanted to continue to grow in a community that supported me and also held me accountable for my professional goals. The action-research process helped me tune in to where I was already prioritizing and leaning into, as well as to places I wanted to direct my time and energy to.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to continuing the work from last year while expanding and deepening my focus in specific areas. As I return to Cohort 21&#8217;s reflective process, I once again get to consider my use of time and the important goals in my professional world. A lot of the important but not urgent areas I&#8217;ve identified through the matrix activity are related to looking at programs and school culture from the bigger picture. I am keen to do more mapping, scope &amp; sequence creation, integration between programs, and longer-range planning.<\/p>\n<p>The areas (and questions) that might be interesting to leverage the support of this community are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuing to work toward inclusion, allyship, representation, and belonging for 2SLGBTQ+ students through the creation and facilitation of a Pride Club (GSA).\n<ul>\n<li><em>What are the opportunities to explore school culture and positive masculinities while designing opportunities and initiatives that create safer spaces for students?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Continuing to explore and integrate learning about positive masculinities in curricular and co-curricular programs.\n<ul>\n<li><em>How might we design co-curricular safe spaces to discuss positive masculinity that are &#8220;cross-tarmac&#8221; (include junior and senior school students)? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How might we continue to use health classes as a program to draw explicit connections between gender and positive living concepts? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>How might we tap into our alumni community as a resource for conversations about positive masculinities? <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What professional development would support our staff in learning more about the shift from toxic to positive\/healthy masculinity?\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Leaning on student voice to better design curricular programs.\n<ul>\n<li><em>What do middle school boys need from an inclusive, harm-reduction, skills-based health program?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Season 13 Strands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ideas above really fit into\u00a0two strands:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pedadogy, Belonging &amp; Wellbeing (7-12): <\/strong>This strand encompasses the work involved in continuing to design a health program focused on student voice and positive masculinity. This strand resonates with me because there&#8217;s a lot of potential in the curricular development to highlight these complex and nuanced topics. It&#8217;s also largely where my energy is already going, so it makes sense to focus here with Cohort 21.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice:<\/strong> This strand highlights the work that schools do to create spaces that promote wellbeing through a sense of belonging, and understanding the culture of masculinity is just as important as teaching about positive masculinity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My school (RSGC) is prioritizing equity and belonging in our professional development work. There&#8217;s a passion to meet our students where they are and to understand all of the pieces of their identities that make them special in order to create an inclusive community. There&#8217;s also an urgency to re-think traditions, practices, language (and more) that are deeply engrained in school culture; these are often spaces where toxic masculinity can live and, conversely, spaces where positive masculinity is needed more than ever. My questions at this point are mostly related to what capacity I have for professional learning and redesign of my program(s), realistic ways to involve students in the process\/topic, and the timeframe for meaningful change and culture shift. At this point, I&#8217;m trying to start small within my sphere of influence and to be realistic about my expectations of myself, our students, and the school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-159\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/savannahbarker\/files\/2024\/10\/IMG_8527-850x638.jpeg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creating gentle experiences for boys to slow down and connect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urgent vs Important This year I&#8217;ve come back to Cohort 21 as a coach. I felt like the face-to-face sessions and this community helped to motivate and inspire me to focus on continuous improvement of my practice and program(s). 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