Gord Downie's "The Secret Path" aired on CBC

Check it out, along with a panel on reconcilation on this link:
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/arts/secretpath

Here's a Maclean's article on the real story of Chanie Wenjack.
http://www.macleans.ca/society/the-lonely-death-of-chanie-wenjack/

Here's another interesting article.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/arts/why-all-canadians-need-to-follow-in-the-example-of-gord-downie-1.3810666

UBC Courses in Indigenous Education

UBC Faculty of Education has announced three professional learning courses in Indigenous Education that will take place in 2017. The MOOC Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education is open registration for anyone; it is a free course delivered entirely online.

• Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education | Online MOOC Download Poster

• Aboriginal Education in Canada | UBC Vancouver Download Poster

• Ecology, Technology, and Indigeneity in the High Amazon Summer Institute | Lamas, Peru Download Poster

RECONCILIATION THROUGH INDIGENOUS EDUCATION

January 24 - March 7 | MOOC - a free Massive Open Online Course

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MOOC

Engage with Indigenous knowledge keepers, educational leaders, and resources to enhance your understanding and knowledge of practices that advance reconciliation in the places where you live, learn, and work.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course will help you envision how Indigenous histories, perspectives, worldviews, and approaches to learning can be made part of the work we do in classrooms, organizations, communities, and our everyday experiences in ways that are thoughtful and respectful. In this course, reconciliation emphasizes changing institutional structures, practices, and policies, as well as personal and professional ideologies to create environments that are committed to strengthening our relationships with Indigenous peoples.

For educators, this means responding to educational reforms that prioritize improved educational outcomes for Indigenous learners. In addition, educators must support all learners to develop their knowledge and understanding of Indigenous people¹s worldviews and cultures as a basis for creating equitable and inclusive learning spaces. To support these goals, teachers, administrators, young people, school staff, and researchers will learn from Indigenous Elders, educational leaders, and culturally relevant learning resources as part of their experiences in this MOOC.

For others who want to build their own competence and the capacity of those around them to engage in relationships with Indigenous peoples based on intercultural understanding, empathy, and respect, this course will help get you started in this process.

COURSE DETAILS: This online course is delivered using the edX platform.

• DATES: January 24 - March 7, 2017 • LOCATION: Online (asynchronous)

• REGISTRATION: Register by January 23

LEARN MORE: Visit the website for more detailed information, and program contacts:pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MOOC

ABORIGINAL EDUCATION IN CANADA | EDUC 440

January - April, 2017 | 8 evening classes + 4 online modules

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Aboriginal-Ed

The educational landscape in BC is undergoing exciting developments, and this course responds to new curriculum developments.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

In this course, educators will build their knowledge and deepen their understanding of Aboriginal/Indigenous people¹s worldviews, approaches to learning, and their histories and contemporary realities. Through the frameworks of reconciliation, decolonization, and self-determination, we will explore how Indigenous histories, perspectives, content, worldviews and pedagogies can be respectfully and meaningfully integrated in the curriculum, teaching, and programming of classrooms, schools, and community contexts.

This course responds to new curriculum development in British Columbia and Canada¹s Truth and Reconciliation Commission¹s Calls to Action (2015), whereby educators are prepared to advance Aboriginal history and worldviews in the curriculum of schools.

Delivered through blended learning, the class will meet 8 weeks face-to-face at UBC Vancouver and include four 3-hour online modules.

COURSE DETAILS: Registration is available for credit (3 credits, EDUC 440) or for non-credit participation to meet the needs of working professionals. We anticipate this course will fill quickly, early registration is recommended.

• DATES: January 3 - April 7, 2017 • TIMES: Tuesdays, 4:30-7:30pm • LOCATION: UBC Vancouver + Online modules

• REGISTRATION: Register by November 22

LEARN MORE: Visit the website for more detailed information, and program contacts:pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Aboriginal-Ed

ECOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND INDIGENEITY - IN THE HIGH AMAZON

July 4-24, 2017 | Lamas, Peru

pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Peru2017

Join UBC at the Sachamama Center for BioCultural Regeneration in Lamas, Peru. The Center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to work collaboratively with the local Kichwa-Lamista communities in their bio-cultural regeneration with the goal of nurturing intercultural dialogue.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This six (6) credit Peru Summer Institute: Ecology, Technology & Indigeneity in the High Amazon offers an intensive three-week program of study consisting of two integrated courses: Ecology, Technology, and Indigeneity in the High Amazon, and Narrativity, Indigenous Ecoliteracies and Ecopedagogies in the High Amazon.

Through a combination of seminars at Sachamama and immersion learning in a local Kichwa-Lamista community, students will engage mind, body, heart and spirit as they experience worldviews, knowings, and community practices that value other than global capital and geopolitical systems. Students will reciprocate by doing hands-on service work at Sachamama and in the Kichwa-Lamista community as part of their coursework. It is anticipated that the exchanges with the Kichwa-Lamista continue beyond the Peru Summer Institute enacting sustained intercultural solidarity-building toward a more just and sustainable world.

COURSE DETAILS: Registration is available for credit (6 credits), therefore participants would need to be a UBC student or apply for admission in order to register. Go Global at UBC International House supports this program.

• DATES: July 4-24, 2017 • LOCATION: Lamas, Peru

• REGISTRATION: Register by January 19

LEARN MORE: Visit the website for more detailed information, and program contacts:pdce.educ.ubc.ca/Peru2017

NOII/AESN grant applications

TO: Networks of Inquiry and Innovation and Aboriginal Enhancement Schools Network

Please find attached the NOII AESN Fall Newsletter...

NOII AESN Fall 2016 Newsletter.pdf

Re: 2016-17 NOII AESN Inquiry Proposal Template attachments - the timeline for submission is November 25, 2016.

1) AESN-NOII Inquiry Proposal Submission Form

2016-17 AESN NOII Inquiry Proposal Submission Form.docx

2) 4 Key Questions

2016 4 Key Questions for Scanning and Checking.pdf

3) SOI -A Guide to the Phases of the Spiral of Inquiry

SOI-Stages-Feb-2016.pdf

The template can be accessed on the NOII website

Infusing Aboriginal Content, Professional Dialogue

We've recorded the webinar on video!

In case you missed the webinar session, or in case you'd like to watch it again, here's the link to the replay video:

Link: https://app.webinarjam.net/r/3/0/replay/13360/d6b211eb31/0/59202715

Title: Infusing Aboriginal Content, Professional Dialogue
Description: Aboriginal Infusion Professional Dialogue - BCTF webinar Aboriginal Understandings and the Revised BC Curriculum

Host: Chris Stewart, Gail Stromquist, Shanee Prasad, Liz Krieg, Chas Desjarlais, Greg Sutherland

Date: Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Time: 03:30 pm Pacific Time (US and Canada), GMT -7

Enjoy the replay!

UBC Event

Reconciling Difficult Colonial Truths:  Literature for Children and Youth

4:00-6:00 pm.  Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Irving K. Barber Center, Chilcotin Board Room, Rm 256 

Given the legacy of 500 years of colonization, sharing and telling stories for children and young adults about difficult truths is important in moving forward towards reconciliation.  As part of the journey,  increased sensibilities and approaches are needed and give rise to many questions. How can children’s literature be decolonized and made appropriate for 21^st century learners? What role do writers, illustrators, teachers, teacher-librarians and children’s librarians play in the process? What ethical and respectful approaches are employed to decolonize the creation, dissemination and use of literature, especially about issues that readers find stressful and upsetting? Who should tell the stories? What are the risks and benefits of appropriation and commodification of cultural heritage?  And what critical analysis skills are essential when promoting and sharing literature that is both historic and an ongoing expression of colonization? Join our School Library Day conversation, to hear from our panelists. 

Maggie De Vries will talk as a writer and editor.  She edited Fatty Legs and A Stranger at Home and wrote the teen novel, Rabbit Ears.

Gordon Powell will provide insights as a teacher, teacher-librarian and district principal for Aboriginal Education in Surrey about First Nations collections and integrating aboriginal content. 

Julie Flett will speak about her work as a Cree-Metis Canadian author and illustrator and how she indigenizes picture books for children.

Arushi Raina will comment about apartheid and growing up as a teenager in South Africa and how that influenced her debut young adult novel, When Morning Comes. 

Free event, featuring light food and refreshments.

Videopodcasts of past National School Library Day Events are available athttp://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/category/webcasts/library-and-information-science/
2010 Video Games and Youth Eric Meyers and Kathy Sanford
2011 Project Information Literacy Michael Eisenberg
2012 Engaging Youth with Indigenous Materials   Debra Martel and Allison Taylor-McBryde
2013 BC’s New Education Plan School Libraries at the Centre of Learning   Gino Bondi, Patricia Finlay
2014 Connecting Authors and Readers   Vivian Howard
2015 The Place and Space for Canadian Children’s Literature in Our Lives and Libraries Maggie de Vries,  Jan Hare, Judith Saltman and Yukiko Tosa  

Jo-Anne Naslund
Education Library
2125 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
604-822-0940

All Our Father's Relations

Sunday, November 6: World Premiere of "All Our Father’s Relations" Documentary Film All Our Father's Relations is documentary film featuring the family of Musqueam Elder Larry Grant, Elder-in-Residence at the First Nations House of Learning. It will premiere at the 20th Annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival and has been nominated for the Best Canadian Feature Award. It tells the story of the Grant siblings’ journey from Vancouver to China in an attempt to rediscover their father's roots and better understand his fractured relationship with their Musqueam mother. The Grant family and their story reveals the shared struggles of migrants and Aboriginal peoples in the past and today. Sun, Nov 6, 4:30pm Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas Purchase tickets (available on a first-come, first-serve basis).

Indigenous Curriculum Resources

Here is a message from publisher, Theytus Books (http://www.theytus.com/), a First Nations-owned and operated and a leading North American publisher of indigenous voices:

We understand this can be a daunting task to find authentic First Nations stories and
materials to use in your class. Theytus Books has been publishing Indigenous stories
for more than 33 years and in the following pages we will highlight some of the
incredible selections of books that can help Indigenize the classroom. We have also
included a fact sheet and links to websites that can be used in collaboration to create
more Indigenous materials and curriculum in your classroom.
Using the three core competencies we identified the books that may be of service to the
area, they are marked as follows:

Communication

Thinking

Personal and Social

We are thankful you have chosen to indigenize your classroom and commit to the
healing and reconciliation between Indigenous people and non-Indigenous people in
Canada.

We hope our books can be of service in this area.