Summary Module Three
Summary Module Three
Summary: Module Three
The final module of this course invited you to critically reflect on your role in creating more just, inclusive, and compassionate early learning communities.
You examined how dominant narratives of “progress” can obscure the realities and needs of the present moment, particularly the children, educators, and families they serve today. Leadership was framed not as a top-down directive, but as an evolving, relational practice rooted in values, ethics, and accountability. Through frameworks that center love-based leadership, you explored how fear-based, colonial leadership habits can be disrupted in favour of approaches that honour interconnectedness, relational trust, and collective care.
This final module also encouraged you to reflect on your communication habits, boundaries, and capacity to navigate conflict and dissonance with honesty and care. It emphasized that anti-bias and anti-racist leadership requires ongoing self-examination, the courage to speak difficult truths, and a commitment to policies grounded in professional ethics and lived values.
Calling Yourself In
This final reflective practice invites you to return to the heart of who you are as a leader. It is an opportunity to reintroduce yourself, not just by name or title but through your values, commitments, and vision for a more just and interconnected world. As you reflect, consider your leadership as a personal journey and a shared responsibility.
Capture your thoughts in your journal, but consider sharing your responses with others, colleagues, peers, mentors, families, or members of your learning community. Doing so allows you to weave your reflections into collective action, building relationships rooted in accountability and hope.
- Who are you?
- Who are you in the lives of children?
- Who are you as an emerging ancestor?
- What worlds do you dream of, and with whom will you share your dreaming?
- To whom will you be accountable?
- As a child care manager and leader, where are you going, and with whom?
Let this reflection be both a grounding and a declaration.
You are part of a global circle of leaders reimagining how we care, lead, and live together.