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In Bloom

By on Mar 27, 2022 in LRNT 525 | 6 comments

One year ago, this tree was blooming as it is now but there were no people on the seawall, no tourists on the paths, and I was the only one taking in the beauty of this tree. One year ago, everything was so bleak. Many of my colleagues were being laid off . Although I was eager to begin my master’s degree, I was worried if I would be able to handle it all. With a degree in dance and my only teaching experience as an ESL teacher, I was full of uncertainty.   Today, as I took in the beauty of the tree surrounded by many, I reflected on our time in LRNT 525. It has been the course that was the most arduous for me. I am someone who prefers templates and structure. I understand that this course has been the course where I had to make clearer decisions about what direction I wanted my coursework and assignments to go. This course has been the one that  brought all the other courses...

LRNT 525, Unit 3, Activity 2: Leading Projects

By on Mar 6, 2022 in LRNT 525, Uncategorised | 4 comments

Immigrant Services Society of British Columbia (ISSofBC), has been leveraging Microsoft tools in our work supporting newcomers to Canada. Many of the teams in our organization are located in different departments and occasionally on different campuses. For instance, our settlement team worked in a different location than the Language and Career College (LCC). Very often one team was unaware of what the other team was doing. Often there were a lot of paper files in cabinets or files located on computers in their respective departments that were not accessible to the organization as a whole, creating data silos. Emails and phone calls made retrieving information time consuming.  Some of our senior leaders realized that as a midsize nonprofit organization that was growing fast and as we approached our 50th anniversary, we needed to think ahead and plan for the next 50 years. The goal of...

External Scan Assignment 1

By on Feb 20, 2022 in LRNT 525 | 0 comments

  In today’s intricate and involved educational environments, higher education organizations operate in an ever-changing world. It is imperative that when considering change that we understand technology, student demographics and our connected world (Castelli 2016). Outdated traditional thinking will not help organizations progress. Complex change needs a leadership strategy that is flexible, supportive, and ethical (Khan 2017). Higher education organizations are presented with many opportunities and challenges because of the information revolution (Weller 2013).  For my LRNT 525 assignment one I was asked based on our readings and networking activities in Unit 2 to create a one-page visual that displays how change is addressed by leaders in digital learning environments using a tool of our choice including an explanatory text that helps frame our current thinking about how...

Activity 3 | Blog Post – Leadership Reflections

By on Feb 6, 2022 in LRNT 525 | 8 comments

Every day in our newsfeeds we see articles that herald headlines such as what good leaders are made of; the top five traits of successful leaders; or the three biggest mistakes leaders make. So, when I logged on to Moodle and began them, I was not sure what to expect. This was an area of study that was entirely new to me.  After 15 years working in a nonprofit organization, I have seen many managers, supervisors and two CEOs (Chief Executive Officer) come or go and can remember many managers or supervisors that were reflective leaders and some who had the title of leader but did not lead. As I began to go a little deeper into the readings, I thought to myself rather than just understand the readings, I would try to internalize them through reflection and create my own examples alongside examples provided by the authors so that I could collect some of the gems I discovered along the way...