Building Resilience for Indigenous Leaders
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Building Resilience for Indigenous Leaders Lynette Callaghan, Kalaya Children’s Centre MATSITI School Leaders Forum, 16 October 2014 www.matsiti.edu.au/events/leaders
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Building Resilience for Indigenous Leaders
- 1. Building Resilience for Indigenous Leaders Lynette Callaghan Kalaya Children’s Centre
- 2. Acknowledgement of Country I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal of Eora Nation as the traditional custodians of the land we meet on today. I would also like to pay my respects to Elders past and present
- 3. A little bit about me! • Lynette Callaghan - Narungga/Nukunu and Yankunytjatjara woman • 5 siblings, Woomera and Adelaide • Education & Employment
- 4. Just a bit more! • Mother to 5, 4 children and my teenage niece • Director, Kalaya Children’s Centre since 2007 • Where I want to be…
- 5. A little bit about Kalaya! • Established in 1975, 3 sites • Aboriginal Focus DECD site • Children aged 6 months to 6 years • Kuranye and Tooketja Rooms, Muna & Parto Kindys • Bus Service
- 6. More about Kalaya! • 20 staff members • Building renovations • Holistic Approaches • Wellbeing, fitness & Nutrition Program
- 7. Exemplary Practices • IPP Hearing Program, • Yarnin Time, Tucker Time • Kaurna language program • Signing in the community • Children’s Centre for Early Childhood Development and Parenting
- 8. Exemplary Practices • Fine Motor Program • Long term employees, valued staff members • AST2 Teacher - Award
- 9. Exemplary Practices • Story Telling in the Community • Aboriginal 3 yr old Literacy Program • (1 of 10 in the State) • Support outreach sites
- 10. What is Resilience? • Own/EC & Studies • Dictionary definitions: Oxford: The Capacity to recover quickly from difficulties: toughness Webster: The ability to become strong, healthy or successful again after something bad happens.
- 11. Resilience in Children • EYLF – Belonging, Being & Becoming • “You can do it” attitude • Strong self & cultural identity • Social confidence • Safe risk taking • Emotional self-regulation • Individual Learning Plans • SMART Training
- 12. What about Us? • Social/Emotional/Physical • Cognitive and PD needs • System designed for dominant culture – different world view • Barriers, challenges, biases, • Discrimination etc.
- 13. All the R’s • Reason – purpose! • Relationships - mutual! • Respect – all stakeholders!
- 14. Responsibility/Regulations • Kalaya Community + • Professional Standards for Principals • Regulatory Authority • Diaf/Tefal • Reflect, Respect, Relate Scales • Accountability – funding bodies, auditors, systems
- 15. Reflection - continual • Internally/externally • Reasons • Relationships • Respect • Responsibilities
- 16. Thank You!
Editor's Notes
- Onto our topic? What is resilence, what does it actually mean? Dictionary, what others see and my own thinking from my personal experience (student, teacher, leader)
- How does it relate to us as Indigenous leaders, we are confronted with more challenges than our non-indigenous leaders.
- Before I go into detail of this slide – it is my personal experience, it is not based on any research. My personal experience only. - reason – kids, family, community! It then goes without saying about relationships with the children and there families are absolutely essential – welcoming environment. It is also with staff collegues, my line manager - I also want to point out that whilst my relatively longevity at Kalaya is based upon a good respectful relationship with my manager – this has not changed with the varying personailies – Ive had 4 line managers and have managed to challenge and be challenged by each one of them – its my job! This is done in a respectful way. Relationships with staff – complexities – regional and state office staff.
- Responsibilities – Community resposibiliites, Australian Standards for Principals, TeFal, DiaF and Regulatory Authority for EC Centres. It is imperative that I meet all these requirements. I try not to be too suspicious but I do know that I need to be beyond reproach in the accountability stakes. This strongly affects my credibility as an Indigenous Leader & I see it as my Duty not to fall short in these areas.
- Reflection – one thing from University is that a good Teacher/Leader must be reflective. Personally, I like seeing the look on my staff members face, when I say I got it wrong, next time…..Most of all be kind to ourselves and others.