Grades 8/9 to Grades 12/13
IBEP strives to create a place where Indigenous business students can thrive. Through their efforts, Indigenous students are ensured space within Asper School of Business, and their student association helps develop leadership qualities within those students. http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/management/programs/undergraduate/ibep/index.html
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IBEP strives to create a place where Indigenous business students can thrive. Through their efforts, Indigenous students are ensured space within Asper School of Business, and their student association helps develop leadership qualities within those students.
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/management/programs/undergraduate/ibep/index.html
The following is an interview with Dave Sloan, the superintendent of schools for School District 60: Peace River North. Mr. Sloan has 30+ years of experience in the field of education and spent over 5 years working at a school in Bella Coola as both a teacher and administrator. https://www.prn.bc.ca/?p=1615 https://www.prn.bc.ca/
The following is an interview with Dave Sloan, the superintendent of schools for School District 60: Peace River North. Mr. Sloan has 30+ years of experience in the field of education and spent over 5 years working at a school in Bella Coola as both a teacher and administrator.
This interview with Pat Jansen provided a great overview of some of the great work being done to support Indigenous students in School District 60: Peace River North. It especially highlighted some of the great successes the district had last year, as graduation rates improved dramatically.
This interview with Pat Jansen provided a great overview of some of the great work being done to support Indigenous students in School District 60: Peace River North. It especially highlighted some of the great successes the district had last year, as graduation rates improved dramatically.
How do you stretch the boundaries of the definition of education to meet the needs of students in the North Peace area?
Sage Birley is an Aboriginal Support Worker who provides emotional, social, and academic support for First Nations and Métis students in the North Peace area. He works as a liaison and helps connect youth with various supports the community has to offer. Sage largely understands the need to engage students and stretching boundaries in terms of how we define education.
Demian Lawrenchuk has led a Christmas break school program that focuses on land-based cultural activities in Gillam, MB.
Demian Lawrenchuk is from Fox Lake Cree Nation in Manitoba. Lawrenchuk is in an apprenticeship program with community Elders, who are teaching him about the traditional use of land, plants, and animals. He volunteers his time at both Fox Lake School and the school in Gillam, Manitoba where he has led a Christmas break school program that focuses on land-based cultural activities. The activities included making and setting snares; catching animals (rabbits, martins, etc.); skinning, tanning, cooking, and making clothes out of them. The program offers students an opportunity to reconnect with the land and reinforce a sense of cultural and historical continuity with their ancestors. During the 2017-2018 school year, he has shown the grade 4-8 classes in Fox Lake how to garden vegetables, clean certain kinds of fish, plant medicine, skin a martin, and make a drum.
Staff at United Native Friendship Centre discuss their Alternative Secondary School program.
Janine Landry interviews Tracy Jensen & Roben Ojden about the United Native Friendship Centre Alternative Secondary School Program in Fort Frances. The United Native Friendship Centre’s Alternative Secondary School program is an alternative means of education for secondary students to complete their high school diploma. They provide a site for students to come and work on their booklets and get any kind of support needed through tutors, cultural support, and career planning support.
Le Centre régional d’éducation des adultes (CRÉA), créé en 2012, a pour mission de desservir l’ensemble des communautés autochtones francophones au Québec. Il vise à amener les individus à développer des compétences à différents niveaux. Divers programmes sont offerts par le CRÉA : alphabétisation, formation présecondaire, formation aux 1er et 2e cycles du secondaire, formations menant […]
Le Centre régional d’éducation des adultes (CRÉA), créé en 2012, a pour mission de desservir l’ensemble des communautés autochtones francophones au Québec. Il vise à amener les individus à développer des compétences à différents niveaux. Divers programmes sont offerts par le CRÉA : alphabétisation, formation présecondaire, formation aux 1er et 2e cycles du secondaire, formations menant vers des métiers semi-spécialisés, mesures d’intégration socio-professionnelle, préparation aux études postsecondaires, etc. Depuis août 2017, le CRÉA offre des services à partir au Centre d’études supérieures Lucien-Cliche de Val-d’Or, pour accueillir un plus grand nombre d’étudiants autochtones. Ce lieu d’apprentissage contribue aussi à des échanges et à un rapprochement entre les différentes cultures. Une des particularités de centre est que des cours sont offerts en langue anicinabe. Pour certains apprenants, ce centre de formation devient un moyen de prendre contact avec leurs origines. Pour d’autres, il leur permet de préserver leur identité culturelle.
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Références pertinentes
Bouchard, C. (2012, 21 septembre). Une première école autochtone d’éducation des adultes. Radio-Canada. Repéré à https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/579619/ecole-adultes-lac-simon
Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue. (2016, 20 avril). Le campus de Val-d’Or lance le projet Obakwadan. Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Repéré 23 janvier 2018, à http://www.cegepat.qc.ca/campus-de-val-dor-lance-projet-obakwadan/
Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue. (2017, 16 août). Ouverture du nouveau centre urbain CREA Kitci Amik Pavillon Val-d’Or. Rouyn-Noranda. Repéré à http://www.cegepat.qc.ca/grand-public/a-propos-du-cegep/medias-et-publications-officielles/communique-16-aout-2017/
Cégep de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue. (7 décembre). Des diplômés autochtones grâce au projet Obakwadan. Rouyn-Noranda. Repéré à http://www.cegepat.qc.ca/grand-public/a-propos-du-cegep/medias-et-publications-officielles/communique-7-decembre-2017/
Centre de documentation sur l’éducation. (2012, 24 septembre). Une première école autochtone d’éducation des adultes. CDÉACF. Repéré 23 janvier 2018, à http://cdeacf.ca/actualite/2012/09/24/premiere-ecole-autochtone-deducation-adultes
Conseil de la nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon. (2016). Ensemble pour réussir : CRÉA Kitci Amik. Conseil de la nation Anishnabe du Lac Simon. Repéré à http://lacsimon.ca/departement/crea-kitci-amik/
Conseil scolaire. (s.d.). Kitci-Amik. Conseil Scolaire | School Council. Repéré 23 janvier 2018, à http://www.conseilscolaire-schoolcouncil.com/kitci-amik.html
Grenier, M. (2017a, 16 août). Le Centre d’éducation de Lac Simon ouvre un pavillon à Val-d’Or. Val-d’Or. Repéré à https://www.lechoabitibien.ca/actualites/2017/8/16/le-centre-d_education-de-lac-simon-ouvre-un-pavillon-a-val-dor.html
Grenier, M. (2017b, 21 août). Lindsay Bouchard inspirée par le pavillon urbain. L’Écho Abitibien et Le Citoyen de la Vallée de l’or et Le Citoyen de l’Harricana. Repéré 25 janvier 2018, à http://www.lechoabitibien.ca/actualites/2017/8/21/lindsay-bouchard-inspiree-par-le-pavillon-urbain.html
Rivest, G. (2017, 16 août). Formation des adultes : le Centre Kitci Amik de Lac Simon aura pignon sur rue à Val-d’O. Radio-Canada. Val-d’Or. Repéré à http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1050723/formation-des-adultes-le-centre-kitci-amik-de-lac-simon-aura-pignon-sur-rue-a-val-dor
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. (2017, 16 août). Ouverture du NOUVEAU Centre urbain CRÉA Kitci Amik Pavillon Val-d’Or. Repéré à http://www.uqat.ca/universite/medias/communiques/index.asp?RefCom=1357
Lakehead District School Board undertakes a summer camp program with 35-40 youth to teach the deeper meaning of living a good life.
Casey Leslie interviews Nicole Walter Rowan (Program Coordinator) & Anika Guthrie (Indigenous Education Resource Teacher) about the Mino Bidmaadiziwin program run by the Lakehead District School Board.
Mino Bidmaadiziwin, means living a good life and is a summer camp aimed at creating community amongst students preparing to enter new schools (Grade 6/ Grade 9/10). Camps are one or two weeks and engage with 35-40 youth from the Lakehead District School Board. The second week is a reach ahead credit for students transitioning from grade 8 to grade 9, to become familiar with more people and enter high school with a credit.
Angela Grandjambe describes some of the land-based education activities in the Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories.
Angela sits on many different boards. She has sat on the SDEC (Sahtu Divisional Education Council) for many years. Leaders help promote and ensure Traditional Knowledge and Practices are articulated in the school curriculum. Angela’s K’ahsho Got’ine background in positions, as such, help reinforce the Dene peoples values, systems, beliefs and practices.
A non-linear adult learning program in Manitoba that has a literacy focus in partnership with the University of Winnipeg.
The Louis Riel Institute Adult Learning Centre is a Manitoba certified Adult Learning and Literacy Centre. We are partnered with the University of Winnipeg Collegiate and funded by the Province of Manitoba’s Adult Learning and Literacy branch.
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