Workshop Room Live

Introduction

COO of Indspire, Cliff Fregin

Welcome Blessing

Knowledge Keeper Cam Hill

Greetings from Indspire's new President and CEO

Dr. Mike DeGagne

Welcome Message, Suncor

Presenting Corporate Sponsor Suncor

Welcome Message, TD Bank

TD Bank Group

RioTinto Student Impact Video

Inspiration Sponsor

Guiding The Journey Welcome Message

Presenting Corporate Sponsor Suncor

Guiding the Journey Recipient - Therese Anderson: Role Model

WORKSHOP 1 - Connections to Land, Water and Identity Through Indigenous Knowledge

Workshop 1: sponsored by Animal Smart: a program of the Ontario SPCA

Tammy Stoneman

Sharon Shadow

Flora Asp

Oral traditions are essential for preserving Indigenous Knowledge and this workshop will, through a combination of activities and discussions, emphasize the importance of incorporating these oral traditions and First Nations stories into school programming. Featuring words and stories from a Yukon First Nation Elder as well as a young Yukon First Nation storyteller, the session will finish with a sharing circle.

Tammy Stoneman, Sharon Shadow and Flora Asp Q&A

Stretch/Coffee/Bathroom Break

Presented by FNTI, Ontario Teachers' Federation and OCAD University

Guiding the Journey Recipient - Jo-Ann Lindalh: Community Service

WORKSHOP 2 - A Culture-Based Model For Curriculum Development

Workshop 2: sponsored by Suncor

Suzanne Methot

In this session, Suzanne will walk participants through the Indigenous Culture-Based Curriculum Planning Framework developed by grandfather/elder Michael Thrasher and a team of Indigenous educators in southern Ontario. This model uses three interrelated processes – the Four Gifts to a Child, the Four Stages of Learning, and the Four Steps in the Learning Process – to create a medicine-wheel-based planning model that reflects Indigenous ideas on balance, interrelatedness, and transformation for both student and teacher. https://suzannemethot.ca/

Suzanne Methot Q&A

Stretch/Yoga Break

Presented by Armanda McArthur

RioTinto Student Impact Video

Inspiration Sponsor

Musical Performance by the Grand River Singers Society

Grand River Singers Society

Guiding the Journey Recipient - Celeste Tootoosis: Culture, Language, Traditions

WORKSHOP 3 - Electric Brain Land aka Computer Country: Workshop on Indigenous Computing

Workshop 3: sponsored by LNG Canada

Jon Corbett

Bringing technology into use from an Indigenous perspective is an extension of long-practiced and well-understood cultural and traditional paradigms, and many Indigenous peoples are utilizing these new technological domains to re-establish individual and community identities. This workshop brings together users, teachers, and researchers (Indigenous and otherwise) to discuss and redefine computing technologies and technology projects that intersect with Indigenous worldviews and cultural practices.

Jon Corbett Q&A

Guiding the Journey Recipient - Gail Brant-Terry: Leadership

WORKSHOP 4 - Community Arts as a Source of Resistance with Young Women’s Indigenous Women's Utopia

Workshop 4: sponsored by TD Bank Group

YOUNG INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S UTOPIA

Young Indigenous Women's Utopia is a girls group in Treaty Six Territory and The Traditional Homeland of the Metis. (also known as Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) As urban Indigenous teens, we come together from many different nations and communities to combat gender-based and colonial violence. We do this work by engaging in cultural reclamation, ceremony, storytelling and arts-based activism and research.  We are part of a larger transnational project called Networks for Change and More Than Words. https://www.mcgill.ca/morethanwords/

YOUNG INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S UTOPIA Q&A

Closing Remarks

COO of Indspire, Cliff Fregin

Networking Lounge

Workshop Room Live

Welcome: Day 2

President and CEO of Indspire, Dr. Mike Degagne

Keynote Speaker Introduction

Shell

Keynote Address by Tanya Talaga

Sponsored by Shell

Tanya Talaga Q&A

Tradeshow and Networking

Please enter the lobby to access the Tradeshow Hall or Networking Lounge

Overview of Daily Agenda

COO of Indspire, Cliff Fregin

Guiding the Journey Recipient Video 5 - Michelle Ranger: Innovative Practice

WORKSHOP 5 - Relationships are the Curriculum

Workshop 5: sponsored by TD Bank Group

Dr. Niigaan Sinclair

Indigenous education is not a lesson or unit plan; it’s a process of living. This is impossible to memorize and contradictory to instruct but based in relationship-making actions that must be lived, practiced, and experienced. So, how do we incorporate Indigenous education in schooling? Hint: it will happen more in the hallways rather than the classrooms.

Dr. Niigaan Sinclair Q&A

RioTinto Student Impact Video

Inspiration Sponsor

Guiding the Journey Recipient - Angie Ortliebe: Partner in Indigenous Education

WORKSHOP 6 - Shifting Paradigms: Creating Space to Walk in Two Worlds

Workshop 6: sponsored by Animal Smart: a program of the Ontario SPCA

Laryssa Gorecki

Lydia Sunchild

Following on the YMCA's cross-cultural exchange in the spring of 2019 between 25 Cree youth from Thunderchild First Nation in northern Saskatchewan and 21 non-Indigenous youth from the Jane & Finch community of Toronto, this presentation explores the group’s aim to disrupt taken-for-granted assumptions about where and how learning takes place. It utilized a holistic approach and developed a framework that directed all four domains of the medicine wheel to ensure experiential learning took place. This presentation will inform educators on ways they might transform educational experiences through Indigenous Knowledge.

Lydia Sunchild and Laryssa Gorecki Q&A

Musical Performance by Riit

Musical Performance by Riit, an Inuk musician from Pangnirtung, Nunavut

Stretch/Coffee/Bathroom Break

Presented by FNTI, Ontario Teachers' Federation and OCAD University

Guiding the Journey Recipient - Young Women’s Indigenous Utopia: Organization

Guiding the Journey Closing Remarks

Presented by Suncor

WORKSHOP 7 - Project-Based Learning and Community Engagement in Environmental Science with Water First

Workshop 7: sponsored by LNG Canada

Adrianna Bilinski

Dillon Koopmans

There is currently a disparity in the representation of Indigenous peoples in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields in Canada. This presentation explores the ways in which Water First creates experiential education opportunities for students using a combination of land-based learning, hands-on learning resources, and community involvement. It will also explore the importance of project-based learning to strengthen students’ leadership skills and discuss mentorship opportunities. Participants will be provided with the necessary tools to strengthen both community engagement and STEM education in their schools.

Adrianna Bilinski and Dillon Koopmans Q&A

RioTinto Student Impact Video

Inspiration Sponsor

WORKSHOP 8 - ONE SONG AT A TIME: Exploring Reconciliation in an Elementary School

Workshop 8: sponsored by Suncor

Dr. Maria Del Carmen Rodriquez de France

This session explores the ways in which Grade 5 students have been learning how to deconstruct words such as Decolonization, Indigenization, Reconciliation, Social Justice, Equity, Fairness, and Diversity in order to naturalize Indigenous perspectives within the new provincial curriculum, with examples of the students’ creations being shown. It will also examine the school context where the support of administrators and staff was essential for the development of initiatives that respected and honoured Indigenous Knowledge and traditions.

Dr. Maria Del Carmen Rodriquez de France Q&A

Closing Remarks

President and CEO of Indspire, Dr. Mike DeGagne

Closing Blessing

Knowledge Keeper Cam Hill