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Reviewed JAG competency and OSEU connections
D24 — Communicate verbally
Explore D24 · Getting an Education - Pearl Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #7 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Pearl Kennedy-Colombe describes learning to speak before others through school experiences. This gives a lived example of developing communication in education, within OSEU 7’s emphasis on educational development.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: School experience supports OSEU 7’s education context; the excerpt does not establish the community social-change action required by 7.2. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Well, when I started school, they put me up at Stephane. So I attended school there till I was a freshman. One year, I went to St. Joe's and I graduated from their eighth grade. And they make a big deal about that eighth grade graduation. You know, you really felt like you accomplished something. And then after that, I went to Flandreau. I went one year to Chamberlain and I talked about racism, you know, like that. I never felt it. But one girl told me one thing that my parents told me not to go hang around, you know, the Indian. But she said, they're not here. They're not with us in school. So she would talk to me. So, but I learned in school just like, I mean, they were in school learning just like the other schools that I've been, you know, everybody was learning something. But I learned how to talk to people by being in a white school, because they would make us get up in the front and, you know, talk. And so I kind of got ahead on the, I kind of got ahead by doing that, learning how to get up and talk in front of people. And then I went to Flandreau and I finished my graduate. My dad always told me to get an education, you know, learn.
Learn About: Which school experience does Pearl Kennedy-Colombe say helped her learn to speak in front of people?
Learn From: What kind of practice or support would help you speak about something you care about?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0051; video 082gmU3rKps; passage containing: learning how to get up and talk in front of people.. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
E28 — Deliver presentations to a group
Explore E28 · Getting an Education - Pearl Kennedy-Colombe - OSEU #7 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Pearl Kennedy-Colombe describes learning to speak before others through school experiences. This gives a lived example of developing communication in education, within OSEU 7’s emphasis on educational development.
Updated for Proposed August 9, 2024: School experience supports OSEU 7’s education context; the excerpt does not establish the community social-change action required by 7.2. Original JAG–interview approval retained.
Well, when I started school, they put me up at Stephane. So I attended school there till I was a freshman. One year, I went to St. Joe's and I graduated from their eighth grade. And they make a big deal about that eighth grade graduation. You know, you really felt like you accomplished something. And then after that, I went to Flandreau. I went one year to Chamberlain and I talked about racism, you know, like that. I never felt it. But one girl told me one thing that my parents told me not to go hang around, you know, the Indian. But she said, they're not here. They're not with us in school. So she would talk to me. So, but I learned in school just like, I mean, they were in school learning just like the other schools that I've been, you know, everybody was learning something. But I learned how to talk to people by being in a white school, because they would make us get up in the front and, you know, talk. And so I kind of got ahead on the, I kind of got ahead by doing that, learning how to get up and talk in front of people. And then I went to Flandreau and I finished my graduate. My dad always told me to get an education, you know, learn.
Learn About: Which school experience does Pearl Kennedy-Colombe say helped her learn to speak in front of people?
Learn From: What kind of practice or support would help you speak about something you care about?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0051; video 082gmU3rKps; passage containing: learning how to get up and talk in front of people.. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Interview transcript
Well, when I started school, they put me up at Stephane. So I attended school there till I was a freshman. One year, I went to St. Joe's and I graduated from their eighth grade. And they make a big deal about that eighth grade graduation. You know, you really felt like you accomplished something. And then after that, I went to Flandreau. I went one year to Chamberlain and I talked about racism, you know, like that. I never felt it. But one girl told me one thing that my parents told me not to go hang around, you know, the Indian. But she said, they're not here. They're not with us in school. So she would talk to me. So, but I learned in school just like, I mean, they were in school learning just like the other schools that I've been, you know, everybody was learning something. But I learned how to talk to people by being in a white school, because they would make us get up in the front and, you know, talk. And so I kind of got ahead on the, I kind of got ahead by doing that, learning how to get up and talk in front of people. And then I went to Flandreau and I finished my graduate. My dad always told me to get an education, you know, learn.