The Empowering the Spirit website focuses on sharing resources to provide a better understanding “to increase awareness, understanding and application of First Nations, Métis and Inuit histories, perspectives and ways of knowing for the purpose of implementing treaty and residential schools education and Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action for education.” Within the website, there are resources such as lesson plans, land based learning, videos, tool kits, teacher professional development and lots of links to other websites to support schools in applying Indigenous knowledge into the classroom.
I was particularly drawn to the section on Instructional Design section as it gave me a better idea on weaving in Indigenous ways of knowing and western practices into the classroom. In particular guiding information about strengthening cultural viewpoints that can be brought into lessons and the learning environment.
The Empowering the Spirit website resources were “developed by Alberta Regional Professional Development Consortia (ARPDC) as a result of grants from Alberta Education to support implementation.”
https://empoweringthespirit.ca/
