Meet the Indigenous Education Team.
These details are also available as a downloadable PDF.
The OCDSB First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education team works with students, schools and community partners to:
- forge strong relationships between OCDSB schools and staff and First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities in Ottawa;
- promote First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives as part of daily school life, across the curriculum and throughout the school year;
- support programming for learning and leadership specific to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students in grades K-12; and
- create school spaces that are inclusive of and responsive to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students, their families, and their cultures.
Professional Development
- Understanding intergenerational trauma faced by First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities. Includes how to best support students and best practices for instruction.
- First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultural competency - ongoing - and in many different venues. Includes understanding of historical trauma.
- Using talking circles in classrooms as an instructional practice - ongoing with many different sessions.
- How to incorporate First Nations, Métis and Inuit perspectives and arts into their teaching of the arts, English and numeracy
- A First Nations, Métis and Inuit studies subject council plans professional development funded by the Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers’ Federation.
Resources
- Indigenous Education Itinerant teacher (K-8) paired with elementary schools to support staff in becoming culturally competent and responsive
- Books with First Nations, Métis and Inuit content, perspectives and authors provided to all schools and training on using them.
- Posters and Treaty maps provided to all schools.
- Assistance in reaching out to and inviting Indigenous elders, knowledge keepers, and cultural teachers into the classrooms.
- Attendance at many Indigenous community events by teachers, administrators, social workers and all other OCDSB employee groups.
- An Indigenous staff network exists to support and share experiences.
- A resource database provided and maintained on our on-line learning platform that can be accessed by all staff.
- More detailed information is available in the OCDSB Staff Portal Indigenous Education page
2019 First Nations, Métis, Inuit Resources - Elementary Schools
Elementary Resource Bundle
Secondary Resource Bundle