The 2nd Annual
Hear Our Voices:
Aboriginal Education Conference
A one day conference hosted and
delivered by
educators� leading the way in the area of
Aboriginal Education
Friday October 21, 2021
Greenwood Inn
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Lunch Provided
Aboriginal Circle of Educators� has been
selected the
Winner
of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation 2005 Award of Excellence In Education
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Agenda
8:00 a.m.��������� ����������� ���������� Registration (Coffee, Tea, Danish
& Muffins)
8:30 a.m.��������� ���������� ����������� Opening Ceremony:� Welcome from A.C.E. Co-Chairs
����������������������������������������������� Debbie-Beach
Ducharme & Rebecca Chartrand
9:00-10:15 a.m. ���������������������� Keynote Speaker:� Mary
Courchene, Educator
10:15-10:45 a.m.��������������������� Break
10:45-11:45 a.m. �������������������� Session #1 (A1-A6)
11:45-12:15� �� ����������������������� Lunch: Evergreen
Room - Compliments of A.C.E.
12:15-12:45p.m. �������������������� Keynote Speaker: Wendy Whitecloud,
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1:00-2:00 p.m. ����������������������� Session #2 (B1-B6)
2:00-2:30 p.m. ����������������������� Break
2:30 �3:30 p.m. ���������������������� Session #3 (C1-C6)
3:30 p.m.��������������������� ����������� Closure
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Keynote Speaker:�
Mary Courchene
Born
on the Sagkeeng First Nation reserve, Mary Courchene spent her formative years
in the residential school system.� Mary
moved away from the reserve in 1971 to pursue educational opportunities
attaining arts and education degrees, first from
Mary�s career
path has included teaching in elementary and high school, as a school
counsellor and school administrator.� She
also spent a period of time as an Assistant Superintendent within the
Department of Indian and Northern Affairs (INAC).
As the first
Principal of Children of the Earth High School (the first urban Aboriginal high
school), Mary was afforded the opportunity to serve the Aboriginal community in
an innovative groundbreaking education initiative.� During her tenure as Principal, Mary
Courchene was an active member serving the urban community on various boards
such as the Aboriginal Advisory Committee to Winnipeg Police Service; Board of
Directors for the St. Amant Centre and initial Chair of the Legacy Committee
for the 1999 Pan Am Games.
Mary received a
YMCA/YWCA Woman of the Year award in 1992 and was the Aboriginal Community
Educator of the Year in 2001.
Although Mary
and her husband George have made
In 2000 Mary
Courchene accepted the position of Dean of Aboriginal Education at
Topic: Anishinabe education is a philosophy based on healing
curricula that is holistic and encompasses the whole person-intellectual
wellness, physical wellness, emotional wellness and spiritual wellness.
As educators of Aboriginal education,
it is our responsibility to promote, advocate, develop and implement healing
ways in the school system. It is also our obligation to ensure that Aboriginal
students are afforded the opportunity to explore their unique values and heritage
in a school setting. To advance Aboriginal education in this way is
fundamentally the vision to hear our voices loudly and clearly.
Lunch Keynote
Speaker:� Wendy J. Whitecloud, Director
of Academic Support Program �Faculty of Law, University of
Ms. Whitecloud is originally from
While working in
She has since been employed in a
number of fields of employment.� She came
back to
Wendy�s interests have consistently
been geared toward issues related to Aboriginal people and their lives in
Topic: Aboriginal children and educational paths to professional careers - There are
too few Aboriginal professionals in the 21st century in
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SESSION A:
10:45-11:45 a.m.
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Session A1 Maple
Room
Traditional Medicine������������������������������������������
Sakoieta' Widrick Regional Aboriginal Spiritual/ Cultural Care
Coordinator, Aboriginal Health Services,
This workshop will address concepts of Aboriginal belief in the
power and strength of plants and traditional medicine to help us achieve and
live lives committed to good health and well-being. The��� Creator has instructed us that for every
disease or sickness that comes against us, as Human beings, there is a plant
that holds the medicine to bring the body back into balance, good health and
well-being."
Session A2� Oak Room
Integrating
Aboriginal Education at the Secondary Level �
Louella Friesen,
High School Teacher, River
The use of different resources in
teaching Aboriginal perspectives at the secondary level (particularly history).
Come and learn about ways to teach with an Aboriginal perspective. The
instructor of this session has ample experience in teaching the Indian Act,
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Session A3 Willow
Room
Soaring to New
Heights� Aboriginal Academic Achievement������
Kevin Chief,
This interactive session will focus
on how a continuum of support was built around Early, Middle and Senior Years
goals.� Seven areas of action will be
explored�professional development, staffing, community connections, resources,
data collection, school initiated projects and communication strategies.� This session will also capture personal
reflections around effective practices in Aboriginal Education and will
highlight the positive strides Aboriginal Academic Achievement initiatives have
made within school communities and the Aboriginal community.
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Session A4
Elm Room
Internet� Based
Resources for Aboriginal Education������
Pauline Mitsuk,�
Aboriginal Resource Consultant,
Pauline
Mitsuk will give an overview of Louis Riel
School Division's Aboriginal Initiative through a power point
presentation. The overview will include the Footsteps website which may
used by anyone. Although the hands on resources are available only
to Louis Riel School Division, the materials list is useful as a reference
point for starting your own resource centre.
Session A5 Spruce Room
Integrating the 7
Sacred Teachings ������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������
Brian McLeod,
Aboriginal Cultural Advisor,
The seven teachings (seven sacred
laws) are becoming widely used within educational settings to assist schools to
help integrate Aboriginal cultures while providing interaction between
students, their communities, and within themselves.� Integrating 7 Teachings however, has the
potential to provide so much more.� To
learn more come and discuss these possibilities with the Winnipeg School
Division Aboriginal Cultural Advisor.�
This interactive session will invite members to explore possible
integration strategies while gaining insight to education from an Aboriginal
world-view perspective.
Session A6
Evergreen Room
The State of
our Families: Do We Really Know How the Impact of �Institutional Impositions�
has affected us?
Janice Millar, Aboriginal Support Teacher,
How do we make sense of this?
What can educators do to support our efforts?�
This session will be open to discuss options, supports and the
importance of �Building a Bridge� between schools and community.� The strength this draws may be the missing
link.� Come share your concerns, bring
your ideas to create an open communication between us the families we work
with. Come and learn how we can all work together to move forward.� ��
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SESSION B:
1:00-2:00 p.m.
Session B1� Maple� Room
S3
Consumer Math from an Aboriginal Perspective
Marilyn Robinson,
Consultant, Program and Student Services Branch,
This session will provide current
statistical information about Aboriginal people that can be useful in classroom
instruction in various subject areas, including math.�� Senior 3 Consumer Math will be used as an
example of how to make the connection between curriculum and Aboriginal
perspectives in the classroom.
Session B2 Oak
Room
First Nations Music
Lawrence Laughing,
Mohawk Cultural Teacher from
This session will introduce
participants to an awareness of First Nations music. Participants will hear the
stories that accompany some of the songs. Songs will include Ojibwe and Mohawk
social songs. Participants will also enjoy listening to and participate in
learning one or two songs of the hand drum and water social songs of the Mohawk
peoples.
Session B3� Willow Room
Integrating
Aboriginal Perspective K-6 ���������������������������
Louise McQuade, Aboriginal
Education Consultant,
This is the session for you!� Materials and strategies that you might use
will be shared.� A circle teaching will
take place and ways to use the circle in your classroom will be discussed.� You will also be given time to browse through
some materials and kits created by The Winnipeg School Division.� Handouts will also be supplied.
Session B4� Elm Room
The M�tis
Jacqueline
Mignot, Aboriginal Support Teacher,
This session will provide an overview
of various Metis Resources (print, media, kits, community, language) that can
be used in the classroom (K-12), as well as how to integrate M�tis/Aboriginal�� Perspectives into curriculum. Information
will be provided in exploring family genealogies. Good information for students
exploring/reclaiming/sharing their heritage and cultural identity. Teachers
will have time to look at the resources. Handouts will be provided.
Session B5� Spruce Room
The Inuit
Nichola
Batzel, Aboriginal Support Teacher,
This session will provide participants with hands on materials that can
be ordered or duplicated by your school for the creation of an Inuit learning
kit. Other resources and suggestions for where to integrate Inuit culture in
your curriculum will also be shared.�
Participants will leave with a list of where to order resources.
Session B6
Evergreen Room
Animating Holistic and Critical thinking in Aboriginal
Education
Dr. Laara Fitznor, �Assistant
Professor, Adult Education, Faculty of
In this session I will discuss critical themes, issues, and perspectives in
Aboriginal education that have the potential to transform our thinking about
education, learning and teaching. Also, I will discuss the ways that pedagogies
in Aboriginal education may move us to transform that way we think and act in
our intrapersonal and interpersonal home/work.
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SESSION C:
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Session C1� Maple� Room
Storytelling
using Technology
This session
will show participants how technology and oral traditions or storytelling can
be combined to enhance the traditions of storytelling.
Session C2� Oak Room
Angela Busch,
Southeast Education Centre
Did you know that the ideal start
time of lower elementary grade children is approximately 8:00am?� Or that the ideal start
time for Senior High School students is somewhere around 10:00am?� Does this sound kind of wacky?� Well it actually makes a great deal of sense
once you take the physiological needs of the students into account.� Adolescents� brains do not start functioning
at their optimum capacity until around 10:00am, and provided they have had
adequate sleep.� Other physiological
factors to consider are proper lighting, adequate nutrition, sufficient water
consumption and �bathroom breaks�.
What can you do to meet the physiological needs in your
classroom?� In your
school?�
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Session C3 Willow
Room
Integrating Aboriginal Perspectives for Beginners
Linda Marynuk, Aboriginal Support Teacher,
This workshop is for everyone who would like to learn and
understand the integration of Aboriginal perspectives into the school
curriculum. Perceived benefits include raising awareness, sensitivity and
improving student-teacher relationships.�
Handouts will also be available for participants.
Session C4
Elm Room
The Genesis
of Canadian Treaties � A Sacred Relationship
Anita L.
Keith, Aboriginal Author
The purpose of this presentation is to look at the
history of the treating-making process from pre-contact through to the signing
of the number treaties.� Specifically
this presentation compares the different worldviews and perspectives of the
Aboriginal people with those of the colonizers.�
To understand the treaties as covenant relationships it is imperative
that we understand the role that ceremonies (rituals) played and play today in
the lives of Aboriginal people.�
Session C5
Spruce Room
Helen Settee, Director, Aboriginal Education Directorate
(will be accompanied by colleagues)
This session will provide an
update and overview on
Session C6
Evergreen Room
Integrating
Aboriginal Arts
Louis Ogemah, Aboriginal Artist & Founder of the Urban Shaman
Gallery
This session will look at ways in
which Aboriginal art can enrich any art program and as well look at tried , and projects that have been successful in
schools.� Come and share in this art
experience that will give you fresh ideas on how to utilize legends
(storytelling) as the basis for creating Aboriginal art.
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Registration
Form:
Confirmation to be sent to:
Name:� _____________________________________________________
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Phone:� (w)________________________� ( H)_____________________________
Fax:___________________________
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Please choose your session choices
using the following table.
SESSION A: 10:45-11:45 a.m
Session A1 _____ A2_____
A3______ A4____A5 ______ A6 _____
SESSION B: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Session B1 _____ B2_____
B3______ B4 ____B5 ______ B6 _____
SESSION C: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Session C1 _____ C2_____
C3______ C4 ____C5______ C6______
Registration Fees:
Early Registration by October 5,
2005:� $100.00��
*Please note after October 5,
2005:� $125.00
Special Student Rate:� $50.00
Lunch Provided
Please make money orders and cheques
payable to The
For Hotel
Reservations:
The
Greenwood Inn ,
$99.00 a
night (single or double)
Must mention
you are attending the
Aboriginal
Circle of Educators� Conference
To register or for more information contact:
Marlene Gallagher:�
Phone: (204) 333-9805� Fax: (204) 783-2986
E-mail: [email protected]
For more information on conference workshops visit www.aboriginalcircleofeducators.ca