🌟 #DitchSummit Session: Meaningful, Efficient Student Feedback with Brisk Teaching, featuring Arman Jaffer is LIVE Discover time-saving strategies to provide impactful student feedback effortlessly. Get your free ticket 🎟 at ditchsummit.com

#IDPD: Watch our new #HeritageMinute on Edwin Baker on this International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Blinded by a sniper’s bullet during the First World War, Baker would go on to be a co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. 1/7

Hey @albertateachers with @ATALocal55 thanks for hosting the one & only @MargaretAtwood. Major takeaway is always be learning - how can one person hold so much knowledge?! Glad she got to share some of it with us. View m.youtube.com/watch?v=pFkxJS…

Celebrate Métis week with Rupertsland Institute! Join our virtual field trips designed for K-12 students to learn from Métis knowledge holders about Métis culture and language. Registration is open now in the RECC Room: rli.connectedcommunity.org/h…

For Indigenous Veteran Day view @CanadasHistory Cree Code Talker *Gr 3 lesson) and watch an animated video about 1908 Olympian Tom Longboat and his service in the First World. Warhttps://www.canadashistory.ca/education/lesson-plans/cree-code-talkers

A beautiful ⁦@NoStoneAlone⁩ ceremony at Burnsland Ceremony as 450 ⁦@CCSD_edu⁩ students from 4 different schools came together to place poppies on veterans’ headstones. Lest We Forget.

What are you doing for International Inuit Day? Check out @CCSD_Indigenous ePD for ideas! Read this captivating book (found on Tumblebooks) & explore the amazing innovations of the Inuit peoples and how their ideas continue to echo around the world

These gr 5 students @StmarkC are change makers as they have been participating in a residency with @EverActiveAB & The Safe & Active Routes to School program everactive.org/projects/ast/…. They will be creating action plans to create more safe & active ways to get to school.

Today we join people across Turtle Island remembering the life and legacy of the Honourable Murray Sinclair, who passed away this morning. 1/7 📷: Canadian Press, photo by Adrian Wyld

Murray Sinclair was a great Canadian, a great Manitoban, a great Anishinaabe.  His career stands as a legacy of public service and a deep commitment to truth, fairness and dignity for all people.  He was the first Indigenous person to be named to the Manitoba provincial court and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba. He was the first, but he will be remembered as one of the best.  He was appointed co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, which laid bare systemic racism within the justice system and is considered a foundational perspective on the system’s relationship with Indigenous people. He led the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest and his report spurred systematic change in the delivery of pediatric cardiac care in our province.  The penultimate moment of his career was his work as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. He approached a process that could have been divisive and instead transformed it into Calls to Action for the future of our country, helping all Canadians to learn to walk together into a future of respect and understanding where we live up to the phrase residential school survivors taught us – Every Child Matters.  It will be a long time before our nation produces another person the calibre of Murray Sinclair. He showed us there is no reconciliation without truth. We should hold dear in our hearts his words that our nation is on the cusp of a great new era and we must all “dare to live greatly together.”  On behalf of the people of Manitoba, I extend my condolences to his family and to all Canadians for the loss of Mazina Giizhik.  A sacred fire will be open to the public on the north side of the legislative building grounds until Murray Sinclair’s funeral later this week.

Register today for the "Braiding Sweetgrass for Educators" course taking place in January 2025 ONLINE with award-winning and best-selling Indigenous author, Monique Gray Smith, who adapted Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults!  outdoorlearning.com/event/br…

We need to take this @XBiffert @IndigenousShala!! @CCSD_edu will be hosting Braiding Sweetgrass Gatherings (season 3!!) - check LS Weekly soon. This is our 3rd year coming together to explore this beautiful book.