The Mountain View School Division is one of 14 in the province participating in an Elders and Knowledge Keepers Pilot Program.
Carole Shankaruk, the Indigenous Education Facilitator for MVSD says Mackenzie Middle School, The DRCSS, and Whitmore School are participating in the program. The schools came up with their own plans to bring Elders and Knowledge Keepers into the schools.
It's so critical, and when you think about where we are in the world today, and the war in Ukraine and how it's affecting our youth coming out of this pandemic. It's important that all kids have those foundational values of love and kindness, caring and sharing.
The program was started to promote the inclusion of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit histories, culture, traditional values, contemporary lifestyles, and traditional knowledge in the provincial curricula.
