In the July/August 2022 issue of Exchange, our thinking partners, Nicky Byres and Lisa Nicholson, shared our collective journey in their article “Reimagining Professional Learning: Telling, Owning, and Honoring Our Stories.” We have been asked to offer our experience of using a ROW book as a foundation for conversations within a Community of Practice.
Before we launch into our story, we want to offer gratitude to the land around us and acknowledge the ancestral, traditional, and unceded Aboriginal territories of the Lower Mainland Coast Salish Peoples, on whose territory we write from today. Why? Because we are living on colonized land, and we want to genuinely engage in the healing from the effects of that history that live on today. Canada has committed to the 94 calls to action as outlined in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report.