Indigenous Education

Comox Valley Schools has put together a wealth of helpful resources for teachers to implement Indigenous Education in K-12 classrooms.

This amazing website is filled with videos, book suggestions, lesson ideas and backline masters. Here is a link: https://indigenouseducation.comoxvalleyschools.ca

Two examples of great resources from this website are below:  

FNESC Authentic First Peoples Resources for Use in K-9 Classrooms

The guide is intended to help BC educators introduce resources that reflect First Peoples knowledge and perspectives into classrooms in respective ways. The inclusion of authentic First Peoples content into classrooms supports all students in developing an understanding of the significant place of First Peoples within the historical and contemporary fabric of this province and provides culturally relevant materials for Indigenous learners in British Columbia.

Reconciliation Art Project

The Reconciliation Art Project is designed to help children, in an artistic and engaging way, explore our shared history and begin to imagine a future of togetherness between Indigenous People and all Canadians.

The Greater Victoria Public Library

The Greater Victoria Public Library is a fantastic Resource listing a number of books for children in Grade K-12 to learn more about the residential school experience.  These books will help children of all ages understand more about Truth and Reconciliation in Canada.

And here is a link to the Greater Victoria Public Library: https://www.gvpl.ca/2018/01/learn-truth-reconciliation-children/

Phyllis’s Orange Shirt  By Phyllis Webstad

A beautiful and moving story of a young girl’s experience at a residential school. 

When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was taken away from her and never returned. This is the true story of Phyllis and her orange shirt. It is also the story of Orange Shirt Day (an important day of remembrance for First Nations and non First Nations Canadians).