Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 62 : Education for Reconciliation (62-65)

Details on Revised Curriculum

November 8, 2017

Ontario is empowering educators to implement a revised curriculum for all students about the contributions, histories, culture and perspectives of Indigenous Peoples that focuses on residential schools, treaties and Indigenous people’s historical and contemporary contributions to Canada. Ontario is investing $2.7 million to support capacity building for educators to teach the new curriculum.

  • Social Studies (Grades 4 to 6)
  • History (Grades 7, 8 and 10)
  • Social Studies (Grades 1 to 3)
  • Geography (Grade 9)
  • Civics and Citizenship (Grade 10) and
  • Select senior courses from the Canadian and World Studies (Grades 11 to 12), along with Social Sciences and Humanities