October Edition
Learning Bird Inc.
We partner with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit leaders to develop education solutions for lifelong learning.
Welcome to the October Edition of News from the Nest!?
This edition features a new blog post with practical strategies for decolonizing and Indigenizing your teaching practice, registration for our upcoming Webinar about integrating Indigenous perspectives into math, and exciting information about the Indspire National Gathering!
This month, we’re hosting a Virtual Roundtable Discussion about leading successful history and heritage projects. This facilitated discussion brings community project leaders and coordinators together to share best practices and insights. Keep reading for more information!
How to Decolonize and Indigenize Your Teaching
Are you an educator wondering how to extend the learning and lessons from Orange Shirt Day? If so, check out our newest blog post! In this post, we discuss what it means to decolonize and Indigenize your classroom and provide practical strategies and suggestions for how you can make this part of your daily teaching practice.
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Free Webinar – Decolonizing Math: Integrating Indigenous Perspectives into Your Math Teaching
Date: October 17, 2024
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. ET
Incorporating Indigenous perspectives into all subjects is an important aspect of decolonizing and Indigenizing your classroom. Many educators wonder what this looks like in math classes because math is often viewed as a neutral and objective subject governed by strict rules and universally accepted principles. However, math, like any other discipline, is shaped by the cultural context in which it is taught.?
Are you wondering how you can integrate Indigenous perspectives into your math classroom? Join Education Consultants Hannah Arseneau-Danielis and Naomi Bender as they share insights from their own experiences decolonizing their math teaching and provide practical strategies and best practices for creating culturally inclusive math classrooms.
Virtual Roundtable Discussion –?Leading Successful History and Heritage Projects
Date: October 29, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ET
As Nations continue to invest in language, culture, and heritage projects, many questions arise about creating authentic resources that share stories, histories, and community knowledge. What are the best ways to share and preserve local knowledge? What are effective strategies for organizing footage? What video or audio material do I need to create specific resource types??
If you’ve ever asked yourself these questions, join our Leading Successful History and Heritage Projects roundtable! This session is a space to collectively explore and exchange ideas about everything from planning and conducting interviews to gathering translations from Elders and Knowledge Keepers to scripting and producing audio, video and print-based resources.?
Join Joelle Chemali and Samantha Cameron in a facilitated discussion with other community project leaders and coordinators as they share their experiences, insights, and best practices.
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Visit Us at the Indspire National Gathering for Indigenous Education!
Learning Bird will be at the Indspire National Gathering for Indigenous Education from November 20–22 in Winnipeg! This unique conference brings together educators and partners to share their perspectives and collaborate to improve the educational outcomes of K–12 Indigenous students.?
We’d love to meet you at the show! Schedule a time to meet with the Learning Bird team at Indspire.
Presentation - Joelle Chemali and Lorraine Cardinal-Roy (KTCEA)
We’re excited to announce that Joelle Chemali, Principal Consultant, and Lorraine Cardinal-Roy, Cree Language Specialist from Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council Education Authority (KTCEA), will be co-presenting at Indspire!?
Date: November 21, 2024
Time: 2:15 p.m.?
Creating Language Resources to Support Language Instructors of All Fluency Levels
Creating effective language resources means addressing the needs of both the educator and the learner. In many Indigenous communities, language classes are taught by non-fluent language speakers, which creates unique challenges. In our work with KTCEA, we’ve supported them in designing language resources that accommodate both fluent and non-fluent Cree instructors.?
In this session, Lorraine and Joelle will discuss how this mix of interview-driven materials, illustrated conversation videos, animation videos, and educator guides support educators of all fluency levels. They will also showcase some of these resources and discuss strategies for using language resources as a bridge to enable non-fluent speakers to teach a language class confidently.
Resource Spotlight – Cree Language and Culture Storybooks, Created with Little Red River Cree Nation
We’re so excited to share a recently completed project with Little Red River Cree Nation!
Learning Bird worked with community members Monica Nooskey and Chester Ribbonleg to adapt 6 stories they authored and illustrated into classroom-ready picturebooks. These picturebooks help K-12 learners read Woodland Cree syllabics while teaching the Nation’s values of kindness, respect for animals, and hunting traditions.
Each K-12 Woodland Cree teacher in Garden River, John D’Or Prairie, and Fox Lake will receive a class set of these books, along with learning resources and teaching plans to start using them in their classrooms.?
Congratulations, Monica and Chester, on publishing your first books. We hope we can support you in sharing more stories in the future!
Out and About: Partner Visits
Living Sky School Division
On September 17, Living Sky School Division invited Education Consultant Denise Desjardins to attend a Pipe Ceremony at their community school in North Battleford, SK. This Pipe Ceremony was for their land-based learning trailer project and the unveiling of new buffalo robes.
Thank you to the Living Sky School Division for making this day memorable! It was an honour to be invited to the Pipe Ceremony.
Interested in Pursuing a Project?
Reach out to our team to discuss your ideas and vision. We can see how we can help you move your project forward and even help you find grant funding to help with project costs!
Email us at [email protected] or call us at 1 (888) 844-9022 ext. 808 to get started.