Official JAG competency wording: Accept responsibility for one’s own actions
Category: Workplace Skills
Source themes: accountability, self-awareness, reliability
Source: JAG Competencies Descriptions.docx.
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Reviewed OSEU and Wolakota interview connections
H69 — Accept responsibility for one’s own actions
Explore H69 · Traditions of Compassion, Help and Respect - Sidney Byrd - OSEU #7 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): The speaker explicitly links values with accountability for actions. Students can examine responsibility and impact without treating one speaker’s perspective as universal.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The teaching concerns values supporting communities through change, now addressed by 7.1; revised 7.3 focuses on continuing the way of life. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
See, in the traditional way, that was not a part of what I was doing. Three things. Have compassion for one another. Have compassion for one another. Help one another. Be the first to help your neighbor. Finally, he said, Kichonihampo. Have respect for one another. If you do these three things, our nation will rise, we'll live, survive. Do these three things. And I got to thinking, you know, that's true. These old wise men tell us these things. Three elements for living. If we do those things, we'll survive. So we can depend on each other to help one another. That's what makes us strong. So I'm a firm believer in that, the traditional way. So, one day, we're going to stand accountable for our actions. And what are we going to say? Are we going to say, we followed the tenets, the teachings of the one we call Wanikia. We have the most powerful gift this world has ever known. You know what it is? It's love. Any problem can be solved with love. Our problem is, we don't use it. So we create problems. There'll be no more wars. There will no longer be selfish people, greedy people. There will be sharing and giving. Our problem is we don't take it. So we create problems. I can't ever forget the wisdom of these old men, Kakosha, Lenakichuyo, remember these things. So we would treat everybody like we want to be treated by ourselves, love one another. So I'm now in the sunset of my life and I'll hang on as long as I can but following those teachings will make the difference in our lives.
Learn About: How does Sidney Byrd connect accountability with the teachings he describes?
Learn From: What could taking responsibility look like after a mistake in a situation you choose?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0153; video o29NO-UyUXk; passage containing: one day, we're going to stand accountable for our actions.. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
H69 — Accept responsibility for one’s own actions
Explore H69 · The Oceti Sakowin Circle - Stephanie Charging Eagle - OSEU #7 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): The speaker links individual responsibility and sharing knowledge with a stronger circle. This supports examining initiative and contribution while keeping OSEU 7.3’s continuation of the way of life explicit.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
We are all individuals in the circle, but as individuals, we have the responsibility to carry on the teachings, to do what needs to be done, to continue to make that circle strong. And that is what I think Oceti Sakowin is, and that as an adult who can speak the language, who has some knowledge of the teachings, it is my responsibility as an individual to share that so the circle becomes stronger, and I believe that is what that essential understanding is. We are the same as anybody else. We do have rights, as all South Dakota citizens do. We do have the same needs, desires, and some are different because culturally we are diverse. But my prayer is that as an educator, as a member of the Oceti Sakowin, that someday we will all have the understanding of each other. Not just that they understand us, but that we also understand our neighbors within this state of South Dakota.
Learn About: What responsibility does Stephanie Charging Eagle describe for an individual within the circle?
Learn From: What is something you know or can do that could contribute to a group’s work?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0181; video 4KErY_ZfZUs; passage containing: as individuals, we have the responsibility to carry on the teachings. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
H69 — Accept responsibility for one’s own actions
Explore H69 · The Importance of Stories - Duane Hollow Horn Bear - OSEU 5 · OSEU 5
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): The passage supports discussing ownership of an action after listening to others. Students can distinguish receiving guidance from transferring responsibility to the guide.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: The revised standard retains the meaning supported by the cited interview passage. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
But we make decisions in our lives, and we have to be responsible for those decisions. So hear the stories, be open to them.
Learn About: What does Hollow Horn Bear connect with openness to stories and responsibility?
Learn From: How could a story inform a choice while leaving responsibility with the decision-maker?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0189 · video ID j_KeSBj28Oo · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
H69 — Accept responsibility for one’s own actions
Explore H69 · The Story of the Girl and the Wolf - Pearl Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #5 · OSEU 5
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Pearl Kennedy Colombe tells of a girl who forgets a promise to a helpful wolf, apologizes, and resumes bringing food. This supports H69 by inviting students to acknowledge an action and make a correction.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Another story they tell, it happened over across the river. This girl was going to school at Stephane and she was sickly. She had TB and she ran away. She didn't like it, the nuns were kind of mean to her because of her being sickly, you know. So she ran away. And at that time, there were still a few wolves around. And she made it into that creek by the river, she made it there. And it was getting dark and it was like an autumn time of the year, cold. And she was really feeling bad and here this wolf came up. And he told her, and they talk native, you know, Dakota. And he told her, I'll help you. If I help you, what would you do for me? So she told him, I'll bring you meat every day. I'll bring you something to eat. And leave it, you know, a certain place. And here, that went on for, you know, about a year. And here, she was still getting, you know, sick. So here one day she forgot.
Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of promises and responsibility? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?
Learn From: How could you acknowledge an action and make a correction? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0044; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZcG9bCrRiU; opening passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
H69 — Accept responsibility for one’s own actions
Explore H69 · After Treatment - April Fallis - OSEU 2 · OSEU 2
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): April Fallis describes returning from treatment, changing her own behavior, and wanting to be a better parent. This supports H69 by inviting students to distinguish one’s actions from control over others.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: New connection to the overall current understanding. No specific OSEU standard alignment is claimed. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
When I was in treatment, they told us that when you go home, everything is going to be different. You are going to be the one that made the change. So everything is going to be the same. So when I went home, I was like “Oh my gosh.” And you realize… you realize… I realized now I know what they were talking about, what they meant. When I was using, that didn’t mean nothing to me. So when I went away and I got ahold of myself…and I got a second chance…the grandfather’s gave me another chance to come back and to show my kids, who were still little, that I wanted to be a better parent… a better mother. And so, I started doing that…and I seen…that you can get tested… still to this day, ya know. I always told my kids… when I got out of treatment… I always told them… my life… and I told them that I cannot change them… I cannot tell what to do… them how to run their lives when they got older.
Learn About: What details in this passage support the speaker’s account of personal change and responsibility? What would you need to hear in the full interview before interpreting it?
Learn From: How could you distinguish one’s actions from control over others? Use a fictional or classroom example if you prefer, and explain which part of the speaker’s account informed your approach.
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0109; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuHs2IzWGOM; opening passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Human Shaped Learning connection
Chapter 14: Conflict as an Opportunity for Learning
Reviewed teaching connection: Reviewed connections: H69. Also supported by H69 competency. Explore a fictional disagreement; practice expressing needs, listening, accountability, and repair.
Human Shaped Learning with Front Matter.docx · Ch. 14, actual manuscript pp. 106–112; Strategies for Supporting Healthy Conflict
Chapter 5: Relationship, Engagement, and Agency: A Learning Story
Suggested teaching connection: Suggested teaching connection for participation, based on H69 competency. Give students a meaningful role in a shared task and let them make decisions about how to contribute.
Human Shaped Learning with Front Matter.docx · Ch. 5, actual manuscript pp. 42–48; Agency Emerges from Trust
Chapter 25: Moving Forward—Creating Human-Shaped Learning Communities
Suggested teaching connection: Suggested teaching connection for shared ownership, based on H69 competency. Invite students to shape a shared goal, choose responsibilities, and reflect on how the group learns together.
Human Shaped Learning with Front Matter.docx · Ch. 25, actual manuscript pp. 180–186; chapter opening and conceptual discussion
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