Posted on avril 17, 2018 by Jeremiah Sharpe
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
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
Posted on avril 9, 2018 by Jason Bruce
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.
https://www.prn.bc.ca/?p=1615
https://www.prn.bc.ca/
Posted on by Jason Bruce
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.
Posted on by Jason Bruce
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.
Posted on by Richard Stecenko
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.
Posted on mars 20, 2018 by Casey Leslie
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.
Posted on by Anne Marie Jackson
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.