1-2. Assumptions we Make

Assumptions About Students & Parents

• We must work from the strengths of the student

• All students have strengths that can be used to
  improve their educational experience

• The school system must respect these strengths and use
  them in the directions in which the student wants to
  apply them

• First Nations parents/students may be involved in
  different ways than schools are use to

• First Nations parents often "wait to see" if the school
  actually cares for their children before they become
  involved

Assumptions about parents

• All parents want to do what is best for their children

• All people know what they want

• All parents want to be proud of their children

• All people have the potential to learn and change

• Everyone is responsible for their actions and choices

• Educators are there to serve the child, and through
  extension, the parents

• Parents love hearing positive things their children do

• Parents become protective when they are always told
  negative things about their children

Motivation

• Everyone wants to do what is right

• Everyone wants to find better ways
  of doing things

• Everyone wants to achieve things of
  which they can be proud

• Everyone wants to belong to a group
  that achieves the extraordinary

• Everyone wants to earn respect and
  recognition for what one is and for
  what one achieves.

{The Effective Executive. Dartnell}