Educators from Sioux Lookout Area First Nations to attend Kwayaciiwin Summer Institutes
KERC.ca press release
Educators from Sioux Lookout District First Nations to Attend Kwayaciiwin Summer Institutes this Month in Sioux Lookout
Sioux Lookout, ON (August 17, 2010) Over 100 teachers and principals from northern First Nations schools will gather in Sioux Lookout, August 24, 25 and 26 for a series of summer institutes presented by Kwayaciiwin Education Resource Centre (KERC).
The three separate institutes will be based on the KERC curriculum which has been endorsed as the curriculum to be implemented in all Sioux Lookout district schools this September.
The Summer Institute on Literacy and Numeracy will introduce educators to the KERC First Nation Student Success Program (FNSSP) and present strategies and resources that will be useful to teachers in helping their students increase reading, writing and math understanding and skills.
The Anihshiniimowin Institute is designed to assist Anihshiniimowin Immersion and Native Language teachers. Use of language games and songs, legends, and traditional culture as teaching tools will be the focus.
Principals in the district will be responsible for implementing the KERC Curriculum in their schools in September. Those attending the Summer Institute for Principals will get an update on KERC’s two programs – Academic Readiness Project and FNSSP and address issues related to leadership and managing change.
The three Summer Institutes will run simultaneously at the Sunset Suites and Best Western Sioux Lookout Inn.
KERC is located in two offices in Sioux Lookout. The Academic Readiness Project is at 61 King Street and the FNSSP at the old KC Hall, 43 Queen. Feel free to drop by to check out the resources the programs have created.
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For more information:
Margaret Angeconeb, FNSSP Coordinator
807.737.7373, extension 21 (P)
mangeconeb@kerc.ca