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Reviewed JAG competency and OSEU connections
E27 — Demonstrate team leadership
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Rencountre describes leadership through giving and caring for people. Students can use this account to examine team leadership as responsibility to others, while distinguishing tribal governance from workplace roles.
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.
His most valuable belongings were always given to his people. He took care of people.
Learn About: How does Rencountre describe the responsibilities of a leader?
Learn From: How could a leader demonstrate care for others in a fictional school or work group?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0089 · video ID Y1qOR4OYQZI · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
P127 — Demonstrate effective leadership skills
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): The source offers a service-centered example of leadership. Students can identify actions that demonstrate leadership instead of treating a title as proof of effectiveness.
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.
His most valuable belongings were always given to his people. He took care of people.
Learn About: How does Rencountre describe the responsibilities of a leader?
Learn From: How could a leader demonstrate care for others in a fictional school or work group?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0089 · video ID Y1qOR4OYQZI · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
N122 — Define and demonstrate empathy
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Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): Attention to other people’s needs provides a basis for exploring empathy in action. Students can infer a possible caring response while returning to the speaker’s actual account.
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.
His most valuable belongings were always given to his people. He took care of people.
Learn About: How does Rencountre describe the responsibilities of a leader?
Learn From: How could a leader demonstrate care for others in a fictional school or work group?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0089 · video ID Y1qOR4OYQZI · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
P123 — Explain the significance of respect for self, others, and rules
Explore P123 · Traditional Values - Whitney Rencountre - OSEU #2 · OSEU 7
Reviewed teaching connection (Supporting): The account connects people’s relationships with the care they receive. Students can explore respect as an action within community responsibilities rather than a demand for obedience.
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.
His most valuable belongings were always given to his people. He took care of people.
Learn About: How does Rencountre describe the responsibilities of a leader?
Learn From: How could a leader demonstrate care for others in a fictional school or work group?
05 Wolakota Project Video Transcripts and URLs.docx · WP-0089 · video ID Y1qOR4OYQZI · cited transcript passage. Teaching interpretation is separate from official wording and the interviewee’s account.
Interview transcript
Through this process of change that our people have endured over the last hundreds of years, there is a kind of redefining of our identity. And a lot of that…through the process…a lot of the traditional values…whether its language…whether it’s carrying on our ancestors…the way our society used to live in terms of…long time ago, the chief of our tribe was the person that gave everything he had. His most valuable belongings were always given to his people. He took care of people. But with the change in that IRA form of government, really has changed our whole society because now very few…like the tribal chairmen, the individuals of the council…they are taken care of in terms of financially and their basic needs. But at the same time, the individuals in the community rely on that. When in reality, the form of government is way different than it used to be. Whereas it was set up to…we took care of one another. There was never an orphan because the aunts in traditional Lakota, Dakota way, the aunts are considered mothers to that child…the fathers, the father’s brothers were also fathers to that child. So the way the society was set up, everybody was taken care of. But nowadays, it’s kind of turned more to a society where it’s more individualistic. And so that really has created cross-boundary in terms of…we are redefining our identity. A lot of times it is really hard to redefine that when its not something apart of our history. And so our students struggle with that…our family's struggle with that. And so on the reservation, there’s a lot of those challenges. We almost have to redefine that for ourselves and take the good and leave the bad in order to give ourselves a chance. But I think we are doing that with a lot of our youth today.