My groups inquiry question is: “How can an assembly celebrating and educating students on Indigenous history lead towards truth and reconciliation in our school and community.”
When we first made our learning plan, our main focus was providing a general presentation with a speaker educating the students on Indigenous history; specifically what hasn’t been taught. As we move forward and progress within our goal for Truth and Reconciliation Day, we have discovered that rather than having a couple presenters just standing there on the stage speaking at us, it would be more effective and captivating to have engaging activities such as music performances and interactive tasks.
As of now, there is not much we can do just yet during our IDS time, other than adding and expanding on our plans. This is because our final project will be taking place next year, rather than in the upcoming four months. Every Cent Time we either have a group Social Justice Meeting and cultivate our ideas, or we work independently in our smaller groups and work on finalizing our plans.
The most helpful resource my group has been using is Ms. Razzell. She knows the limits for what we can and can’t do throughout the school, as well as is able to contact outside sources or presenters that we can use.
Some challenges we have faced thus far have been budgeting issues, time management, as well as engagement issues. We find it extremely difficult to find ways to captivate our audiences without providing a ‘bribe’ or reward.
I feel that a growth we have had to work on is Communication. Throughout this process, we have had to convey our ideas with each other, Ms. Razzell, as well as other Social Justice members.
To share our learning of our inquiry, we will create either a slideshow or a poster of our plans, ideas and goals for our Indigenous awareness week taking place next school year. We still have lots of finalizing and editing to do on our plans, but so far we are on track.
I think this project would be good to work on for my Grade 12 capstone, as the main idea of it will be taking place next year.
