Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Manitoba"

Supports for Indigenous Students 6. Recommendation: Ensure an Indigenous-inclusive education system that is reflected across the curriculum, programming, policy, and education workforce. Prioritize recruitment and retention efforts to increase the number of Indigenous teachers and teachers of Indigenous languages. This should include partnerships and planning with post-secondary institutions. Expand initiatives that support traditional Indigenous knowledge systems for...

‘Reconciliation will only exist … when we see it in every aspect of a student’s experience,’ says professor CBC News: As a Shakespeare fan who loves sharing his work with students, Windsor, Ont., English teacher Carolyn Howlett admits she felt a bit apprehensive when her board began work shifting its Grade 11 English course to focus...

NationTalk: The Manitoba government is establishing the Manitoba Education Council to take a provincewide approach to planning, implementing and monitoring Manitoba’s K to 12 Education Action Plan and is issuing a call for applications from members of the public wishing to join in this work, Education and Early Childhood Learning Minister Wayne Ewasko announced today....

NationTalk: The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) issues this statement in response to the Manitoba government’s announcement of “Mamàhtawisiwin: The Wonder We Are Born With – An Indigenous Education Policy Framework”. This framework aims to incorporate Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing in K-12 education. In addition to the new framework, Manitoba announced an...

The Manitoba government is setting up a Provincial Curriculum Advisory Panel that will provide input on the development of a framework for curriculum to advance education as part of the Better Education Starts Today (BEST) strategy. The Provincial Curriculum Advisory Panel will provide input into the direction of the provincial curriculum and develop a new...

Government of Manitoba Nations Education Resource Centre and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs to create a five-year Treaty Education Initiative in the fall of 2019 that works with teachers to ensure students between kindergarten and Grade 12 learn about the treaties and treaty relationships...

Premier Pallister missed a golden opportunity to advance reconciliation by deliberately choosing to ignore the contribution of the Métis and First Nations peoples to the founding of Manitoba and its entry into the newly formed confederation of Canada. “Manitoba” derived from the Cree, Ojibwe or Assiniboine languages means “straits of Manitou, the Great Spirit”. (Canadian Encyclopedia)....

CTV News – Manitoba NDP Bill 206 “The Louis Riel Act” introduced in December 2019 would see Louis Riel recognized as Manitoba’s first premier and honor his legacy as a founder of the province of Manitoba, a father of confederation and a champion of the rights of the Métis people.” On top of naming Riel the...

The Manitoba government has established a new commission to undertake a comprehensive, independent review of the kindergarten to Grade 12 education system. The minister noted the process will include extensive consultation across Manitoba and consider a wide range of topics such as student learning, teaching, accountability for student learning, governance and funding....

Manitoba Colleges Education Review highlights several opportunities to enhance and modernize college education by building on existing strengths as well as looks at governance, efficiency, student outcomes, programming relevance to the labour market, financial management, system coordination, partnerships and client services. The province will work towards implementing several key recommendations – including for indigenous students...

“Creating Racism-Free Schools through Critical/Courageous Conversations on Race” encourages school divisions, teachers, parents and students to have conversations about racism to raise awareness and ensure inclusive and equitable schools and classrooms for students of all backgrounds.  The document acknowledges history, describes the effects of racism, promotes dialogue and supports the calls to action of the...

The Manitoba School Boards Association (MSBA) and nine of Manitoba’s universities and colleges have signed a new Indigenous education blueprint in an effort to comprehensively implement recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The signatories to the “Manitoba Collaborative Indigenous Education Blueprint for Universities, Colleges and Public School Boards: Making Excellence in Indigenous Education a...

Official signing of Indigenous Education Blueprint by all Manitoba Universities and Colleges and the Manitoba School Boards Association. All signatories commit to: Engaging with Indigenous peoples in respectful and reciprocal relationships and to realize the right to self-determination, and to advance reconciliation, language and culture through education, research and skill development; Bringing Indigenous knowledge, languages...

Understand the history of the residential school experience, its influence on contemporary Canada, and our responsibilities as Canadian citizens. Specific teaching around Treaties....