Renewing Treaty and Agreements Education: Learning From Elders

As part of the new Alberta Teaching Quality Standard, teachers and system leaders across Alberta are required to have a foundational understanding of the implications of treaties with First Nations and legislation and agreements with Métis. However, questions remain about what this foundational understanding entails and how this work can be ethically enacted in schools by a largely non-Indigenous teaching population. This session will address these questions by presenting insights from a recent professional growth initiative that brought together system leaders and educators from the Calgary Catholic School Division and the Calgary Board of Education, with local Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Holders.