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 and intellectual traditions, models and approaches into curriculum and pedagogy;
- Promoting research and learning that reflects the history and contemporary context of the lives of Indigenous peoples;
- Increasing access to services, programs, and supports to Indigenous students, to ensure a learning environment is established that fosters learner success;
- Collaborating to increase student mobility to better serve the needs of Indigenous students;
- Building school and campus communities that are free of racism, value diversity and foster cultural safety;
- Increasing and measuring Indigenous school and post-secondary participation and success rates;
- Showcasing successes of Indigenous students and educators;
- Reflecting the diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures in Manitoba through institutional governance and staffing policies and practices; and
- Engaging governments and the private and public sectors to increase labour market opportunities for Indigenous graduates.