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Aanse: Indigenous Student Well-Being and Achievement Strategy

Aanse, the Anishnaabemowin word for “transformation,” is the inspiration for the Aanse: Student Well-Being and Achievement Strategy. The UIEC continued to provide direct wrap-around support to schools with the highest numbers of First Nations, M茅tis and Inuit students through Aanse: Indigenous Student Well-Being and Achievement Strategy.

These schools receive ongoing services from UIEC Aanse Teams that include Indigenous Education Learning Coaches, Indigenous Social Workers, a Student Success Teacher, Indigenous Graduation Coaches, Cultures and Traditions Instructors, Community Liaisons, an Itinerant Resource Teacher, and Itinerant Indigenous Language Coach to create spaces that centre and affirm First Nations, M茅tis, and Inuit students’ lived experiences.

Indigenous education professional learning offerings

In 2023-24, the UIEC unveiled a powerful suite of professional learning offerings open to 吃瓜黑料网 staff system wide. Topics were determined from UIEC staff observations of system learning needs based on their work with school-based staff to support First Nations, M茅tis, and Inuit students and families.

Indigenous staff developed and facilitated seven multi-session professional inquiries for educators, professional support staff, and other non-educator staff, including Indigenous Land-Based Approaches to Teaching in the Early Years; Confronting Anti-Indigenous Racism; Indigenous STEAMMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Medicines, and Design); Creating Safer Spaces: Trauma Informed Practices and Cultural Safety in Schools; Indigenous Land-Based Education, and; Two Spirit and Indigequeer Identities.

Nimkii-Kwe Akiing (Thunder Women on the Land) Summer Cultural Camp

The Nimkii-Kwe Akiing (Thunder Women on the Land) Summer Cultural Camp welcomed First Nations, M茅tis, and Inuit secondary school students from across the 吃瓜黑料网 to learn from Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Keepers, engage in ceremony and celebrations, and learn from the land.

While attending a two-week overnight camp at Albion Hills Conservation Park, students completed a cooperative education credit. Nimkii-Kwe Akiing was led by Elder Clayton Shirt and the Urban Indigenous Education Centre in honour and in the name of the late Elder Pauline Shirt, in partnership with 吃瓜黑料网 Outdoor Education and The Toronto Regional Conservation Authority.

Indigenous education school improvement planning and implementation

The UIEC worked with over 302 staff, including teachers and administrators from 114 schools and their superintendents to support them with embedding the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action (TRC Calls to Action), including the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as a distinct focus for all school improvement plans across the 吃瓜黑料网.

In collaboration with the 吃瓜黑料网 Research and Development Department, an analysis of reported school improvement plans from schools that participated in system projects focused on Indigenous Education for School Transformation (Biidaaban: Truth and Reconciliation Strategy and Aanse: Indigenous Student Well-Being and Achievement Strategy), as compared to schools that did not participate, reflected: