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As part of British Columbia’s commitment to truth, reconciliation and anti-racism, the Ministry of Education has implemented a mandatory 4-credit Indigenous-focused course or bundle of credits as part of graduation requirements effective in the 2023/24 school year.
In an effort to advance reconciliation through education in NLPS, English First Peoples courses are being developed and taught to grade 10 and 12 students. These courses will also support students in meeting the Indigenous Graduation requirement effective 2023/24.
This is in addition to Indigenous culture and perspectives that have been integrated throughout all areas of learning. For example, place-based learning and teaching practices that honour the First Peoples Principles of Learning in every area from K-12.
NLPS strongly believes that all students will benefit from the rich knowledge, ways of being, and culture of Indigenous people who have lived on this land since time immemorial. This knowledge is a step towards fostering informed, responsible, and human rights orientated citizens.
The journey towards reconciliation includes ongoing communication about the land and territory on which we learn.
Teaching students to acknowledge territory expresses respect, gratitude and appreciation for Indigenous peoples who have lived and continue to live on the land.
This exercise created by the NDSS English department with inspiration and resources from many places will support you to guide students in writing land acknowledgements that hold those aspects of value and respect for both the past and the present.
Hul’quimi’num language is one of the Coast Salish languages spoken in British Columbia.
Revitalizing the language of the land is vital to the reconciliation process. To understand the relationship of the people to the land, we must understand the beauty and life of the language as it breathes life into inanimate objects and validates them as relations.
Use these resources to support your journey into introducing Hul’quimi’num words in your classes.
Each school has a team of English Language Arts and Humanities teachers that have carefully curated the content that students will experience. This database will help for ideas, and also for inter school loans.
If you see something here that you are interested in, contact the school secretary to put you in touch with the learning leader at the school who can lend you one or more of these resources. Please keep in mind that learning resources in schools are purchased through the school budget, and must be returned or replaced to the school it came from. Also, each school has unconditional priority to their onwn resources.
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