Reflection can be a wonderful thing, sifting back through memories to seek a moment in time, possibly aggrandizing what you’ve found to help ease the labour involved in the process of its inception. My time in LRNT525 has felt very much like flipping through a digital picture frame: proud moments pop up in the midst of chaos (the labour of life as a teacher!). I attribute a fair chunk of the fond memories of this course to my colleagues. My teammates in Team E, with their outstanding leadership strengths, Luis, Karen, and Alisha, it was a pleasure working with you from the first collaborative task to our final Toolkit, I have learned so much from you three, thank you!

As this course winds down, I spend time visualizing the leadership attributes of those with whom I engage day in and day out. As a teacher in a publicly funded school, I admit to feeling disassociated from the bigger picture, believing myself to be a small piece of the puzzle working hard to affect change for a few. This course has altered that perception. It has allowed me to see beyond the confines of my classroom walls, to become a part of the change I envision for my school and my school community. I look forward to implementing my Virtual Land Acknowledgement Project Plan in my school and to seek help from my peers to help enrich the framework to actualize a three-year plan to affect change for Indigenous education in other elementary schools.

My future in education will be steeped in research, as I embark on a thesis pathway of qualitative discovery of Indigenous voices in education. I hope that I may one day contribute to Indigenous research on education in Canada, and extend my learning to support all stakeholders who fall outside of, and cannot identify with, the eurocentric colonial education model.