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Professional Development Workshop Ideas

Professional Development is Key to Supporting Educators! Below, I’ve created and attached a sample email announcement for an Indigenous Education Professional Development workshop. I hope this resource is helpful in promoting meaningful learning opportunities for educators! 🌿✨

Email Template:

Are you ready to transform your teaching and create more inclusive classrooms? We thrilled to introduce our upcoming Professional Development Workshop designed to help educators integrate Indigenous worldviews, such as Buen Vivir and Ontario Indigenous teachings, into their practice.

This full-day workshop will explore:

Land-based learning and its role in fostering respect for nature.

Collaborative storytelling using tools like Participatory Video Research (PVR).

How Indigenous philosophies, like the Medicine Wheel and Dish with One Spoon, align with Ontario’s curriculum.

Practical strategies for designing culturally responsive lesson plans.

💡 Why Attend? You will leave with useful tools, fresh ideas, and a deeper understanding of how to honour Indigenous perspectives in your classroom.

🕒 When: [Insert Date] 📍 Where: [Insert Location]

Attached below is the full itinerary for the workshop—check it out to see the exciting sessions planned!

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Weaving Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Classroom Practices

Weaving Ways: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Classrooms and Schools (2018) provides a framework to help embed Indigenous knowledge into everyday learning. Based on Weaving Ways: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Classrooms and Schools (2018), here are four key ways educators can incorporate these Indigenous perspectives into their classrooms:

1. Cultures of Belonging

Creating a classroom that fosters belonging involves embracing the Indigenous idea of wholeness, where every individual is connected and valued. This approach emphasizes mutual respect and inclusion, helping all students feel seen and supported.

Classroom Tip:

Introduce a "Circle of Courage" model, inspired by the medicine wheel, to teach balance and harmony. Engage students in activities like traditional games to explore relationships and cultural connections.

2. Instructional Design

Culturally responsive instructional design incorporates Indigenous and Western ways of knowing to create meaningful learning experiences. It promotes reconciliation by respecting multiple perspectives and deepening student engagement.

Classroom Tip:

Students research Indigenous community members' understanding of a learning outcome, such as sustainability. They then present their findings through storytelling or art, blending cultural insights with curriculum goals.

3. Sharing Through Story

Storytelling is valuable of Indigenous teaching, providing a way to pass knowledge through generations. Stories create connections to content and encourage students to share their experiences, fostering deeper engagement.

Classroom Tip:

Read the poem "Footprints in the Snow" by Nichola Batzel to explore kinship and roles within families. Invite students to reflect on their own family roles through writing or discussion.

4. Pedagogy

Indigenous pedagogy values Two-Eyed Seeing, which combines Indigenous and Western perspectives for a holistic learning approach. This method encourages co-learning and collaboration, fostering respect for diverse ways of knowing.

Classroom Tip:

Combine ideas to expose students to varied ideas and opinions to clarify understanding to broaden perspectives.

(Weaving Ways: Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Classrooms and Schools, 2018)

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"Midwest Nice," Racism, & Microaggressions

WBEZ’s Curious City recently ran a segment on “Midwest Nice” examining the origins of “Midwest nice,” and asking the question: is the Midwest more “fake nice” than the rest of th…

My attempt to connect the Curious City episode about Midwest Nice with microaggressions and conflict avoidance in the classroom.

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The Wingman: Engaging Reluctant Students

Quick strategy for engaging students who are quiet and reluctant. By giving these students a guide sheet and responsibility during discussions, teachers are able to have more students engaged in the activities.

“The idea of the wingman, is how do I get them to be engaged in a lesson and  feel safe and not lose them?”

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This teacher makes her students aware of their power and responsibility in shaping the classroom culture. Not only have they come up with classroom rules, but as she mentions, when anyone is offensive, disruptive etc. the class stops and decides together if that moment is going to help or hurt them moving forward. This not only creates a positive learning environment, but gets students to think about what they do and say to their peers. For students with disabilities who might be bullied or teased, it not only demonstrates that that behavior isn’t allowed in the classroom provides opportunity to show their peers that this kind of action only serves to harm both them and their target in the future. Inclusive classrooms are those in which peers can relate to each other and respect each other’s differences. 

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Scholarly Resources about Inclusivity

But That’s Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. by Gloria Ladson-Billings

http://equity.spps.org/uploads/but_that_s_just_ladson-billings_pdf.pdf

Moving Beyond Tolerance in Multicultural Education by Sonia Nieto

http://www.sonianieto.com/OLD/PDF/Moving%20beyond%20tolerance%20Mult%20Ed%201994.pdf

Winners Need Losers by Ellen Brantlinger

http://4000summerb2014.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/7/3/28734887/brantlinger_2006b.pdf

Presuming Competence by Douglas Biklen and Jamie Burke

https://sssresourcelibrary.wikispaces.com/file/view/Presuming+Competence+EE_article_6_06__3_.pdf

Adding Urban Complexities to the Mix by David Connor

http://4000summerb2014.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/7/3/28734887/connor_201-.pdf

[Re]Claiming "Inclusive Education" toward Cohesion in Educational Reform: Disability Studies Unravels the Myth of the Normal Child by SUSAN BAGLIERI, et al.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234717475_ReClaiming_Inclusive_Education_toward_Cohesion_in_Educational_Reform_Disability_Studies_Unravels_the_Myth_of_the_Normal_Child

“Coming out Crip” in Inclusive Education by Nirmala Erevelles

http://www.academia.edu/2368626/_Coming_Out_Crip_in_Inclusive_Education

Keeping Kids in Schools: Restorative Justice, Punitive Discipline, and the School to Prison Pipeline by Thalia Gonzalez

http://www.ibarji.org/docs/gonzales.pdf