Tool Box (Resources/Reminders)

1. Indigenous Ways of Being and Knowing

1.1. Resource Link to the West Bank First Nation: https://www.wfn.ca/our-community/community-profile/history.htm

1.2. Land Acknowledgment: I respectfully acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples on whose traditional territories our three campuses reside.

1.3. Land-Based Connections: Embedded throughout all aspects in education

2. “Teaching is a form of activism when we ask students to think critically about the world: to unpack their assumptions, to consider alternative viewpoints, to dismantle problematic beliefs, to make careful arguments, and to defend their perspectives” (Hytten, 2017, p. 387).

2.1. Commitment to my role as an educator and life long learning, unlearning and implementing positive changes.

3. Reflection Questions:

3.1. What expectations did I bring? Where did these expectations come from?

3.2. Why does this bother me? What does this reaction say about me?

3.3. What aspects of my lived experience dispose me to feel this way?

4. "We Teach Children Not Subjects"

4.1. Implementing Core Values Into the Classroom:

4.2. Compassion Kindness Inclusivity Equity Honesty Resiliency

5. Anti-Racism/Representation

5.1. Resources:

5.2. “Be comfortable with the uncomfortable” - Beth Applewhite

5.3. "Hands_Consutling" Instagram

5.4. Teaching Tolerance Speak Up Guide.PDF

6. Advocacy: Inclusion and Equity

6.1. Creating, Providing, and Maintaining resources to ensure all individuals are supported.

6.2. Adaptions are “Individualized strategies that ‘level the playing field’” (Williamson, 2019).

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8. 6 R's

8.1. Relationships Respect Reciprocity Relevance Responsibility Reverence

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