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This conference invites participants to experience and explore approaches, pedagogical practices and inspiring examples for the Indigenization of student learning and educational spaces.

Throughout the day, you will gain insights and learn about resources from Traditional Knowledge Keeper and Anishinaabe Cultural Consultant Kim Wheatley (Shawanaga First Nation); Jasmine Wong, Senior Program Associate for Facing History and Ourselves; Lorrie Gallant (Haudenosaunee Cayuga Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River), storyteller, artist, educator and former Woodland Cultural Centre Education Program Coordinator; Indigenous Education Officers at the Art Gallery of Ontario; and faculty at Pickering College.

Join us to further the possibilities for Indigenous cultural inclusion, content integration and reconciliation in your practice and at your school.

During the conference, educators will:

1. Begin and end the day grounded in traditional Anishinaabe protocols with Knowledge Keeper Kim Wheatley, Shkoden Neegan waawaaskonen (Shawanaga First Nation)
2. Learn about and participate in a smudge ceremony (optional) and territorial acknowledgements
3. Explore what Indigenizing classrooms, schools and systems might include and how it can be pursued respectfully
4. Take part in a private Decolonizing and Indigenizing learning tour of the J. S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art with the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Indigenous Education Officer
5. Gain whole school and subject-specific strategies for weaving Indigenous learning into curricular and co-curricular learning
6. Share with other educators the best practices for Indigenizing and decolonizing school spaces.

Presented by Facing History and Ourselves, in partnership with Pickering College and in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Ontario.