M.1 – P.2
Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement
This course has brought me back to the Stronger Together Enhancement Agreement that has been an ongoing and updated agreement created by the district and Indigenous communities within Burnaby.
This document led to the creation of the position I now hold as Indigenous Success Teacher. The overall goal is to provide our students with cultural development, social emotional development, and a focus on academic success.
The idea is that with these three components, students will be able to “walk confidently and competently in the modern, urbanized world in which Burnaby is situated” (Stronger Together, 2019). The second agreement, Stronger Together, is up for renewal as the 5 year timeline is up. I began thinking, what could be added or changed now that I have been in the role? If you look under the academic goal, the district monitored the core skills of early literacy and numeracy, the indicator for this would be performance standards. Academic success can include other indicators beside literacy and numeracy and I believe should connect curricular goals and course content, include case studies of groups of learners, and measure ‘academic success’ with the consultation and guide of an Indigenous framework, one that connects to the Principles of Learning. OR some other scale? Questions…
Above is a photo of Burnaby North’s Youth and Family coworker, Lorelei Lyons, and Mandy Alves (me, lol) at dinner party for our Grads.