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Tpol 2025

Thank you for reading my (TPOL).

Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning. I am also responsible and accountable for my own learning. You can expect me to give an honest evaluation of my progress. We will discuss my strengths and opportunities for growth. Thank you in advance for listening and for offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

🧭 Refined Vision, Mission & Values

At the start of 2025, I laid out my vision of becoming a balanced, hard-working learner, supported by a structured mission—embedding quality, seeking feedback, and building reliable habits. My core values included self-regulation, agency, communication, and collaboration.

Over the past nine months, I’ve revisited these statements every few so often, tweaking them to stay aligned with my growth. For example:

  • Vision: I’ve refined it to emphasize not just academic achievement, but also to include personal awareness 
  • Mission: Now includes specific steps like “reach out to teachers if I’m ever in help”
  • Values: I added empathy after noticing how supportive peer relationships boosted group work. Even if imnalready confident in that 

📈 Strengths & Areas of Growth

Agency
I learned to advocate for myself—not just raising questions in class, but also emailing teachers to discuss how I could deepen my projects.  My other favourite part of agency is my fight against my phone.

Communication & Collaboration
From my winter BCFP exhibition booth on Indigenous celebrations to the end-of-year group presentation in Humanities, I leaned into teamwork. I initiated planning sessions, delegated tasks based on strengths, and practiced active listening, which earned praise for respectful leadership.

🎯 Goals from March & Actions Taken

  1. “Stop procrastinating work” → I set weekly mini-deadlines and checked in with myself but still struggling, Sometimes 
  2. “Build stronger peer feedback networks” → I started unintentional peer-review sessions sometimes where we are giving and receiving feedback openly. I now ill regularly ask peers for improvement suggestions because its more comfortable 

đŸŒ± Personal Growth

Beyond academics, I’ve grown in confidence and reflection. I used to struggle being on my phone but recently ive been trying my best to be off it but once i get fully back off ill be even happier than i was before i belive.

🧭 Looking Ahead

As I wrap up 2025, I see real evidence of growth: stronger habits, clearer purpose, and deeper connections. But this isn’t where it ends—I’m not stopping here.

My goals for the next term are:

  • Deepen Habits: Start using a dedicated planning app and syncing notes across devices.
  • Amplify Agency:  prioritize peer feedback in more situiations 

Thank you

Beyond, Exhibits

What role do museums and governments play in acknowledging and addressing historical injustices? That was the question that was asked in my latest BCFP project “Beyond the Exhibit”.

We started off just by learning about the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, which is the law-making body of the province. We wanted to learn about them because they’re the ones who make the laws and the larger decisions for Indigenous people, and we wanted to know what their thoughts and ideals for those communities are. Then strangely enough, we started learning about museums and their connection and role to Indigenous communities and peoples, as well as the overall link to the government / Legislative Assembly. I started off thinking that there’s tons of different connections between the two, which made it hard to figure out what to focus on for the final project: a video about a connection we made to reconciliation and the reason it is important to know about.

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Write or Wrong?

Hey everyone and welcome back to my blog. Today I’m talking about my latest project “Write Stuff,” where we focused on writing stuff, but more importantly, we learned about writing like ourselves, with our voice. So that for our final product our teachers could identify who wrote what article without a authors name on them.

We wanted to make something to show who we are with text. We learned that our voices are totally unique and can shape who we are, even in writing. Writing is just a way to use that unique voice, a way to carve out our identity in a world where machines can copy us but can’t truly create like we can. This project was all about finding that voice, fine-tuning it, and learning how to use it.

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Mpol 2025

Thank you for coming to my presentation of learning. I am the expert on my own learning, responsible, and accountable for my progress. You can expect an honest evaluation of my achievements and areas for growth. We will discuss my strengths, opportunities for improvement, and my goals for the future. Thank you in advance for listening and offering feedback that I can use to improve as a learner.

Today I will discuss and go over the topic given to me by Ms. Maxwell: “How can I refine my vision, mission, and values to better achieve my vision?” 

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BCFP Combro Road to ReconciliACTION!?

Hello everyone welcome back to my blog. This post is going to be a combo of a few projects because I’m behind. Those two main projects that I’m going two talk about are “Road To Rights” and “ReconciliACTION”. 

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How to Digging Deeper (BCFP)

Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog! This post is gonna be covering the BC First People’s project, “Digging Deeper,” that we just finished. For a bit of context about the project before I start telling you about all the details of what I did, this project was focused on anthropology with the driving question, “How might we use an anthropological perspective to better understand the history of British Columbia?”

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The Story Of My Year (TPOL)

Now that I’m going into grade 11, I’m really starting to feel the pressure, especially because the consensus that society has made is that grade 11 is when everything really starts to matter. But luckily, this year has started to prepare me, and I think now I have the knowledge and skills to actually do the level of work I want to do. In this blog, I’ll be talking about how I got those skills and learned all that new stuff specifically through the lens of three success criteria of a PLP learner. The segments I’ll be mainly covering are conduct and integrity, self-regulation, and agency. I want to tell the story of my year in a more chronological way than others, so I’ll be trying to demonstrate how I grew in different areas over the course of the year. Here’s the success behaviors of a PLP learner just for some context the ones marked are where I think I’m at right now.

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DI regionals

DI Regionals can suck. Luckily, this year it didn’t, and instead, it was full of feelings of worry and doubt, but then slightly less worry and doubt, and then finally pride and joy. But what made me feel that way this year, well, that’s what this post is going to be about.

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Crazy?

If I say “that guy’s crazy,” what do you think that means? Most likely, you’re thinking about the mad kind of crazy with smashing things and all that, but the kind of crazy I’m talking about is the one that geniuses get called, the kind that innovators get called, the kind that people say when something life-changing happens, and that kind of crazy is what we had to learn about on our latest project “cray cray yay yay”.

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Who Will I Be?

“Who are you?” It seems like an easy question to answer, but if I told you to really give it some thought and give me a deep answer on who you are, most likely after you gave it some thought you’d agree that it’s not as easy of a question to answer than it sounds. Even for me, when I was asked that question, I got stuck, and then we were told that we were going to do a whole project going over the questions like “who are you” and “What kind of person do you want to be?” I thought that this project would be a cakewalk and I would be able to do all the work without ever really needing to think about it. But then we watched (Michelle Obama who are you gonna be?). And I realized how important and impactful these kinds of questions really are and especially just how difficult they would be to answer.

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