I engage a lot with Fanon’s work, but had never read A Dying Colonialism until this week. I’m glad I took the time to sit with this book, about Algeria as a French settler colony and the liberation struggle there that started in 1954. Here are some thoughts 🧵
I am so excited to be the keynote speaker at the Surrey Teacher's Association Convention May 3, 2024. I will be presenting in person at the Bell Centre. Don't delay Surrey Teachers, sign up today!
For the next two weeks, Indigenous Peoples and youth from all over the world will share knowledge, lived experiences, and priorities on Indigenous issues and rights. #UNPFII2024#UNDRIP
‘Producers that were non-Indigenous were accessing large amounts of funding to tell Indigenous stories.’
Tuesday on Face to Face, Indigenous Screen Office CEO Kerry Swanson explains the importance of funding Indigenous filmmakers to tell their own stories.
After long and happy careers, my husband and I are retiring in June (he from the law, me from education). Any suggestions for us to help with the adjustment? Any resources which you could recommend? :)
I get asked often how we can do authentic land acknowledgements, this are the questions I ask people to help them to make connections to how to do this work. https://t.co/ExbBlEpMb8
Connections between literacy & nature based learning? Increasing feelings of safety, connection & belonging in gr. 9 students?
Join us for a fast-paced 30 min #noiiebursts learning burst where we will hear from teachers who are exploring these questions. https://t.co/Xp7w3oho7g
Excited to be presenting about lived and fixed curriculum and how Indigeneity and the new reporting order can flourish in your second language classrooms! See you on October 20 in Vancouver at the #BCATML annual conference!
@mcarolynroberts An important conversation which needs to be had, yet so many educators and parents want to hold on to the "familiar" and sidestep the issues of racism, colonization, and Indigeneity.