Actions and Commitments:
Exploring Theme: "Mandatory K-12 Commitments"
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(Filtered by Stakeholder "Québec")
February 11, 2023
As more high schools add Indigenous- focused compulsory courses, some warn against a siloed approach
‘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...
November 30, 2021
Québec Education responses to Viens Commission
Québec government is investing $19.4 million to implement three measures covering: direct student support instructional material and program review The government wishes, in this way, to implement the recommendations of the “Inquiry Commission on Relations Between Indigenous Peoples and Certain Public Services in Québec: Listening, Reconciliation and Progress”, and “the National Inquiry into Missing and...
November 20, 2020
15th competency: Understanding and Learning to Fight Systemic Racism
The “15th competency: Understanding and Learning to Fight Systemic Racism” for teachers and teacher education programs, developed by a joint effort by the First Nations Education Council, Institut Tshakapesh and the Centre de développement de la formation et de la main-d’oeuvre huron-wendat has received the full support of the Provincial Education Table First Nations Student...
April 15, 2020
Kativik Ilisarniliriniq launches Inuit-centered Education resource portal (Nunavik-IcE)
Kativik Ilisarniliriniq launches today the Nunavik Inuit-centered Education resource portal (Nunavik-IcE), a website dedicated to educational resources in Inuktitut, English and French. The Nunavik-IcE portal features lessons and other local resources collected and developed by the Education Services department in collaboration with teachers, elders and knowledge holders as well as staff and partners who support...
January 14, 2020
Revamp of Ethics and Religious course
The Quebec Ministry of Education announced plans to revamp its ethics and religious culture course. The First Nations Education Council has noted that his reform is taking place at a time when the government must respond to the Viens Commission’s calls to action, which include the recommendation to “further enrich the Québec curriculum by introducing...
June 19, 2018
Replacement of Secondary III history textbook
Replacing its Secondary III history textbook for next year with a version that will “better reflect the Indigenous perspective.”...
June 19, 2018
Québec History book replacement
Replacing its Secondary III history textbook for next year with a version that will “better reflect the Indigenous perspective.”...