James Bay Lowlands Secondary School Board & Moosonee District Area School Boards

into Euro-Canadian culture.) To this day, we’re still dealing with some of the ramifications of that. We were going through a phase where we had a lot of trauma-informed approaches in our teaching and our methodology. We’re now gradually shifting over to more of a healing-centered engagement and using a culturally sustainable pedagogy approach. That’s the underlying theme. When we do our teaching, we Secondary School Board. “Between 90-95 percent of our Indigenous students have relatives – grandparents, an aunt or uncle – that have attended a Residential School. We had several in our area. (Residential schools were government-sponsored religious schools that were established to assimilate Indigenous children 4 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 05, ISSUE 07 REA SCHOOL BOARD

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