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Wicihitowin

Finding My Place Alongside Parents in a Circle of Shared Responsibility

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This chapter offers the story of my personal journey as I entered a conversation of change. My journey marked a change in my teaching practice and in my lived curriculum, and a change in how I worked toward engaging parents and families in the classroom environment.

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Heidi, H. (2015). Wicihitowin. In: Living as Mapmakers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-361-2_11

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