Twin Rivers Education Centre
Visual Storytelling
A SET-BC Synergy Project
I thought long and hard about which student video I wanted to showcase. I settled on this student's video not because it was the "best" video, but because this student and their project was the best representation of the idea behind the project.
Raine has been my student for more than 2 years now, but Raine and I first met before he transitioned. Before transitioning, Raine was in crisis. When we met again, Raine had recently come out and had started to identify as male. Raine was still a long way from where he is today and he spent nearly 2 years in my class without completing a single course. Raine jumped from course to course, making very little progress in each one before giving up and trying something else. Raine is a very creative person, but struggles to complete written work. When I first introduced Raine to the idea of making a video, he was adamantly against it. He wanted to finish his course "the right way" and didn't think he'd be good at it. A few months later, Raine started testosterone therapy and started watching transition videos from other transgender people. Raine was telling me about the videos one day in class and I suggested that he could make his own video and that it would count for his English course. He was hesitant, but decided to give it a try. Raine failed to finish the video by the end of the 2019/2020 school year and I thought he was going to give up for good. When Raine came back in September, he excitedly told me that he had worked on it over the summer and was almost ready to start filming. Weeks went by and Raine started over more times than I could keep track of. Finally, he decided to do a test recording and within a matter of a couple of weeks he had completed his first unit of work in more than 2 years! The successful completion of this project filled Raine with confidence and he quickly finished his English course. This was the first academic course that Raine had completed in 2 years! Raine has since completed several courses and is hoping to graduate next year. Here is Raine's transition video: https://youtu.be/cxLNu3r4pQw
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AuthorErin Fletcher is a humanities teacher at Twin Rivers Education Centre in Kamloops, BC. Archives
June 2021
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