Wednesday, October 7, 2015
FNESC Residential Schools Teacher Resources
FNESC has Residential School Teacher Resources for Grade 5/10/11/12.
They are free to download, or hard copies can be ordered for $20.
Monday, September 14, 2015
Orange Shirt Day
September 30th is Orange Shirt Day which, in the spirit of reconciliation, honours the survivors of Indian Residential Schools, and remembers the thousands of children who did not survive. Attached is a poster to display in schools and classrooms.
Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake, BC, Canada, in the spring of 2013. It grew out of Phyllis Webstad’s account of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away on her first day of school at the Mission School and it has become an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually. The date was chosen because it is the time of year in which children were taken from their homes to residential schools, and because it is an opportunity to set the stage for anti-racism and anti-bullying policies for the coming school year. Orange Shirt Day is also an opportunity for First Nations, local governments, schools and communities to come together in the spirit of reconciliation and hope for generations of children to come.
For more information see:
- http://orangeshirtday.weebly.com/about.html
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Friday, June 19, 2015
Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education
UBC Faculty of Education delivering a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled, Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education. This is a free 6-week online course that begins on September 29, 2015.
Participants will learn about Indigenous Education through the lens of reconciliation, and will engage with educational leaders and resources that provide direction for how education programs and teaching practices can be modified in order to meaningfully integrate Indigenous knowledge worldviews and pedagogies in classrooms, schools and communities.
We'd like to invite you and your colleagues and associates in Richmond School District to join us in an online information session on June 24. Learn more about this professional development opportunity and creating Communities of Practice engaged with the subject matter.
Please help us spread the word about this widely accessible learning opportunity with your colleagues and networks.
The announcement is available as plain text, as a one-page poster, or in HTML format (below).
Sincerely,
Heather
Heather McGregor
Professional Development & Community Engagement
Faculty of Education
The University of British Columbia
1304 2125 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Musqueam Culture Tour
Delta has kindly reserved 10 spots for Richmond teachers. Pick up and drop off will be in Richmond. If interested, please respond by Friday, June 19 by 3 pm to lmccoll@sd38.bc.ca.
Cedar Weaving, June 15, 2015
Back in April, the Richmond School District’s Aboriginal Education department hosted Alice Guss of the Squamish Nation for a morning of cedar weaving. Alice is an artist, storyteller and drummer and has been involved in the field of education for over twenty years. She does workshops around the world in drum making and weaving.
More information about Alice can be found HERE.
We invited Alice back to Richmond as part of our National Aboriginal Day celebrations and this week she worked with two of our QTL (Playful Storytelling through First Peoples Principles) classes at Steves and then joined teachers from the project after school.
Kathleen Paiger’s kindergarten class and Ellen Reid’s grades 1 and 2 class at Steves Elementary listened to Alice singing and drumming and learned about how cedar is harvested for the purposes of weaving and making practical items and regalia. Alice shared some of items that are made from different parts of the cedar tree.
The students learned how to weave a cedar bookmark and they were quite interested in the texture and smell of the wood.
The students then enjoyed listening to Alice’s stories and she said them in some dancing to her drumming, with the students taking on different animal roles.
After school, a group of teachers involved in our QTL project along with some other interested educators, came together. Alice shared her family’s history and we learned about the story of The Chief in Squamish and of the two-headed serpent, a story important to the Squamish people. The teachers then learned more about the importance of cedar and how cedar trees that have been culturally modified (stripped for cultural purposes) can not be cut down by logging companies. An article about culturally modified trees can be found HERE.
The teachers learned how to weave a small cedar basket. There was lots to be learned during the process about persistence and learning new things and also about the natural properties of the cedar. The completed projects were cherished by the teachers and were all one of a kind.
It was an honour to have Alice join us in Richmond again and we hope to have her back again next year!
Thursday, June 11, 2015
CELEBRATING FNMI LITERATURE
- Hear Our Stories: Celebrating FNMI Literature
- "The Canadian Children's Book Centre is offering a free online theme guide that focuses on books written by and about members of Canada's First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. It also provides activities for using these books in the classroom, library or at home. View it online or download."
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