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The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) is committed to working with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit (FNMI) community members in the Ottawa-Gatineau region to ensure that First Nations, Métis, and Inuit students have opportunities and resources to achieve academic success and to further their personal well-being. In addition, it is our goal to improve educational outcomes for all of our students by ensuring that they leave secondary school with a complete and authentic understanding of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit histories, traditions, and contemporary realities.
Left to Right: Josh Lewis, Kareena Butler, Kris Meawasige, Chantel Verner and Jody Alexander
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.
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For more information about the OCDSB’s commitment to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education programming, please contact:
- Dorothy Baker, Superintendent of Instruction, at (613) 596-8211 Ext. 8818, email: dorothy.baker@ocdsb.ca
- Jody Alexander, Vice-Principal, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education at (613) 596-8211 Ext. 8179, email: jody.alexander@ocdsb.ca
- Chantel Verner, Instructional Coach, First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Education at (613) 596-8211 Ext. 8159, email: chantel.verner@ocdsb.ca
- Kris Meawasige, Indigenous Student Support and Re-engagement Coordinator, at (613) 608-9764, email: kris.meawasige@ocdsb.ca
- Kareena Butler, Indigenous Education Itinerant Teacher (K-8), at (613) 596-8211 Ext. 8426, email: kareena.butler@ocdsb.ca
- Josh Lewis, Indigenous Student Support Coordinator, at (613) 979-4623, email: josh.lewis@ocdsb.ca