WBE Communications Officer Dwayne Animikwan says First Nations students and communities benefit from shared education and lifelong learning stories. Sept. 15, 2021 – Around Wiikwemkoong First Nation, Dwayne Animikwan is affectionately known as “the Picture Guy.” When students were out in the sugarbush collecting sap for maple syrup last month, he was there with his […]
FNWSC’s Leslee White-Eye joined former Ontario Deputy Education Minister Gabriel Sékaly were featured in a StrategyCorp podcast on First Nations education. As part of its goal to see First Nations attain full jurisdiction and control of on-reserve First Nation schooling, the First Nations with Schools Collective (FNWSC) has been working with StrategyCorp Institute, which provides advisory services on
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As we explore ways to incorporate culture-based curriculum into our schools, we invited Elders to share their own education stories during a series of meetings this year. Read what some had to say. March 19, 2021 – As part of its goal to incorporate culture-based curriculum into the infrastructure of schools on First Nations,
First Nations can use the UN’s Declaration for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to reassert education jurisdiction in their communities, a human rights law expert says. March 1, 2021 – During two training and planning sessions as part of a FNWSC webinar series, Dr. Anver Saloojee, a Ryerson University politics and public administration professor,
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With tips on how to get the attention of journalists, write a news release and develop a blog, a media training toolkit is now available to the First Nations with Schools Collective (FNWSC). Nov. 28, 2020 — With tips on how to get the attention of journalists, write a news release and develop a blog, a media training
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