Standard: Facilitating Collaborative Engagement to Cultivate and Empower and Community of Learners
Theme: Student Voice and Community Partnerships
Growth Phase: Leading
Growth Indicator: Students and school learning community design and lead special LLC projects and initiatives to drive positive change.
Be inspired by this video about students at Acadian Junior High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba, who donated an irrigation drip system that they had won to a secondary school in Tigithi, Kenya that vastly improves water sourcing for food growing.
Knittel, Silvia. (2012). Acadia junior high donates a drip irrigation system to Tigithi secondary school. Project Kenya Sister Schools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBb69wX9Q_s
This concise and pertinent slideshare (6 slides) prepared by teacher-librarian for staff is an excellent tool for others to adopt/adapt. It provides background on Orange Shirt Day, age appropriate lessons and examples for reflective assignments, articles, maps, links to resources such as the Indigenous Study Guide (K-12) which includes using indigenous literature, and other key resources for staff to learn about Residential Schools and Truth and Reconciliation and be well prepared to engage students in learning about them too.
Lyons, B. (2019). Indigenous Resources – Orange Shirt Day [Slideshare]. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-0VfzYhwZ0cevszQ3047g1JOAQE9daMKphvJTAfikRs/edit#slide=id.g4103292a25_0_9