This session is designed for participants to explore several authentic, recommended Métis educational materials that help to create teachable moments and provide foundational learning opportunities through-out the school year. Building your foundational knowledge about Métis will empower you to select authentic, accurate resources that honour distinct Métis perspectives to weave into your current teaching practice. Together we will explore resources designed by Métis educators that weave Métis voices into your learning.

Languages traditionally spoken in the Métis Nation are deeply connected to Métis people’s community, culture, and nationhood. Learn about Métis languages and identity in this introductory exploration of Rupertsland Institute’s Métis Foundational Knowledge theme,
Languages of Métis.

The Scrip System was designed to assimilate Métis peoples and take away their homelands. In the aftermath of racism and dispossession, Métis have remained resilient in caring for their families and pursuing justice. Learn about the Scrip system, its ongoing harmful impacts, and Métis resilience.

Métis Memories is a powerful truth telling resource about the experiences of Métis people in residential schools. These experiences have been profound – not only on the families of these individuals, but also as a collective Métis experience. The strength, pride and resilience of Métis people endures today despite the trauma. These authentic stories, images, videos and websites are ways we can continue to learn about ongoing effects of residential schools on the Métis people. Métis Memories is a resource designed for educators to learn alongside their students in a meaningful and respectful way.

Land Based Learning is central to Métis ways of knowing and being. When Métis create relationships to the land, we have a responsibility to live in reciprocity by protecting and caring for the land and all that lives on it. Seeing the land as a relation is an important Métis worldview. Join Rupertsland Centre for Teaching and Learning in exploring what Land-Based Learning could look like in schools, what it is and resources to support this learning.

This session is designed for system leaders who are interested in hearing how some Alberta School Boards have entered into Métis Education Services Agreements to boost Métis education in their districts. Become aware of how Rupertsland Institute is supporting educators and students by aligning the professional practice standards in Alberta with authentic innovative courses, resources and one-on-one supports for districts.