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The Seal
No full textThis is a digital drawing I created using the Procreate app. Inspiration comes from my personal experience. It depicts a Black girl getting her freshly made braids sealed with a hot water bath by grabbing the braids and placing them in the bowl. Her face is in a grimace from the rough handling.
Getting my hair done has never been a particularly pleasant experience for me, but it is a core part of my childhood. Hair has always been a big part of my life and is an important topic in the Black community. Growing up in a predominantly white city, my hair was one of the biggest things that set me apart. I used to not like how different my hair was from my classmates’. I’d get asked questions about it, people would touch my hair, and I was generally uncomfortable with the constant attention it brought me. On top of all of this, getting my hair done was a painful experience. I hated the sectioning, the brushing, and all the time it took to do it. Even with all the perceived negative consequences, I felt my hair “brought” me, I always loved how it looked at the end. My hair was something that I love. A lot of Black people, especially young girls, grow up believing that their hair isn’t “good”. In my art, I’d like to portray the not-so-positive way I felt about my hair, but I also wanted to show the inherent beauty that it has as well.https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/upliftingblackness_images/1019/thumbnail.jp
Florals on The Surface
No full textFlorals on the surface, 3ft x6ft This colourful piece was inspired by the beautiful bouquets of flowers my roommate would bring home every week to freshen up and beautify our space on a regular basis as well as the array of textures and hues that were brought out from the composition as a rendered take on a dark flat surface.https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/upliftingblackness_images/1009/thumbnail.jp
Integration and Inclusion from Self-Contained Classrooms to Improve Academic and Social Outcomes
Get PDFThe inclusion of students with special needs is considered a hallmark of human rights policies and practices in many education systems throughout Canada and the world. However, the question of how to successfully enact such policies and practices in the face of human resource challenges, limited budgets, and other competing interests presents many challenges for policymakers and educators. This organizational improvement plan (OIP) aims to address this challenge as lived in District School Board X (DSBX). Many organizational challenges have created a dynamic where most students with significant special needs are segregated in self-contained classrooms focused on life-skills, even though numerous students can be successful in regular classrooms with adequate support. Many of these students do not develop the social and academic skills required to earn a secondary school diploma, while their disability may not be considered severe enough to secure a disability pension. This OIP will apply both a critical disability theory (CDT) and transformative leadership lens to this problem of practice (PoP) in showing stakeholders how the current paradigm marginalizes students with special needs. It will explore how shifting from a medical model of disability to a social model of disability will create an organizational dynamic focused on making regular classrooms more accommodating for students with special needs to reduce the reliance on self-contained classrooms. Through a pilot school approach, this OIP also outlines a change implementation plan focused on reducing the need for self-contained classrooms through an accountable process to increase integration and inclusion
An Act of Hospitality: From Clinical to Trauma-Informed Academic Support
Get PDFHigher education environments tend to sustain interpretations of student success that place the responsibility on students alone. This perspective, often described as deficit thinking, shapes educational responses into remedial ones. In this view, students who struggle do so because of poor study skills or habits. Academic support, then, fills the students with what they lack. This approach assumes that all students access learning in the same way, and that all students are equally able to make good academic choices. However, research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) finds that many students bring with them a history of trauma, which changes the way they learn and respond to new stressors. A trauma-informed approach recognizes the institution’s responsibility to acknowledge the impact of trauma and to design support according to trauma-informed principles. This organizational improvement plan examines the institution’s role in academic support, with a change plan designed for one Canadian university. The discussion is rooted in interpretive organizational theory and social cognition as an approach to change, with specific attention on sensemaking. Using the change path model and a servant leadership orientation, I develop a three-loop plan that employs a community of practice (CoP) as the mechanism for change. I suggest the initiation of the CoP, strategies to mobilize change through social and institutional learning, mechanisms for monitoring the change path, and communication strategies to encourage second-order change. With a metaphor of hospitality, I consider how to open the educational space for all students to enter and thrive.
Keywords: academic support, trauma, servant leadership, interpretivism, sensemaking, community of practice, hospitalit
Building Educator e-Pedagogy Skill Efficacy and Capacity to Successfully Engage Students in the Online Learning Environment
Get PDFStudents around the world are increasingly seeking options for completing their learning in an online format due to its convenience, flexibility, and opportunity for innovative experiences. Higher education institutions need to adapt their course offerings to include robust online programs and train their faculty with the necessary skills to successfully engage their virtual learners to remain competitive in today’s market. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) identifies gaps of inadequacy of infrastructure to support online learning, limited knowledge of e-pedagogy, lack of clarity about teacher identity, and lack of focus on equity and humanity in the online classroom at a Christian liberal arts university in British Columbia (BC). Theoretical frameworks of social constructivism and humanism frame the approaches to leadership and the proposed change process by centering on serving the needs of others, building authentic relationships, and engaging social capital and collective efficacy to drive change. Through partnerships between faculty and e-pedagogy experts, a professional learning community (PLC) emerges to support faculty in building e-pedagogy skills while increasing capacity to engage students in the online learning environment. Change agents draw on an organizational vision of understanding who we are (e.g., identity), what we believe (e.g., knowledge), and what we are called to do in the world (e.g., action) to create alignment between organizational values and the proposed change process. The outcome creates opportunities for stakeholders to engage with a modernized approach to education while expanding their identity as an educator and serving the diverse needs of learners across the globe
Mentorship: A Powerful Tool for IPG Success
Get PDFBecause Canada espouses principles of diversity and multiculturalism, many international pharmacy graduates (IPGs) immigrate to Canada expecting to find employment using skills for which they trained in their home country. Upon arrival, they often face challenges in credential recognition and licensure. Barriers include systemic discrimination, socio-psychological isolation, the precipitous decline in social status, and financial challenges of navigating the steps that bridge the training received in their home countries to the scopes of practice in Canada. The problem of practice (PoP) explored in this organizational improvement plan (OIP) focuses on the lack of opportunity that IPGs have to access clinical workplace settings prior to being assessed for entry to practice competencies. Health Alliance is an organization that works in the regulatory space for internationally educated healthcare professionals, and that provides a service that facilitates the IPG path to licensure in Canada. This OIP proposes housing a mentorship program at Health Alliance, to specifically address the experiential learning, and knowledge and skill gaps that have been identified as barriers to success for international pharmacy graduates pursuing licensure, and ultimately, gainful employment as pharmacists in Canada. This OIP examines the PoP through the lenses of sense of community theory and critical race theory to explore how the lived experiences of diverse internationally educated skilled immigrants are impacted by the process of seeking credential recognition and licensure. Change at the leadership, cultural and operational levels will be facilitated through Kotter’s eight stage change model and will be evaluated using an empowerment evaluation approach
Bishop Cronyn Memorial Church Choir 1.7
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St. Stephen\u27s Anglican Church Choir
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