Residential+Schools+Pilot+Unit+-2012

This page will try to keep you up to date with a major initiative that the governments of both the NWT and Nunavut have agreed to undertake, in partnership with each other and with the Legacy of Hope Foundation (part of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation). This project has) developed teacher and student materials (from photo exhibits, visual timeline banners, to research, survivor transcripts, and teacher inservice). Very ambitious undertaking, with some products that are now being piloted in Northern Studies classrooms in second semester of the 2011/12 school year with a large scale pilot scheduled for the fall semester of the 2012 year.

Draft documents and feedback (members must agree to not printing off until permissions are given) will be made available to this wiki for your information and input.

The attched video is not approved for release, but gives a sense of one of challenges this whole issue will pose, and to which we'll need to have good answers: 'how to engage young people in issues that they do not feel affect them?" The link below takes you to the Truth and Reconciliation website. The video you want to look at (and you do, trust me) is the 'Youth Perspective on Residential Schools' one.

http://www.trcnationalevents.ca/websites/Northern/index.php?p=238[|Our Truth: The Youth Perspective on Residential School]

=__Pilot Teachers from NWT and Nunavut__=


 * **Pilot Teacher** || **Community** || **Pilot Start/Finish dates** ||
 * Joanne McHugh || Yellowknife (YCS) || jmchugh@ycs.nt.ca ||
 * Scott Willoughby || Yellowknife (YK #1) || scott.willoughby@yk1.nt.ca ||
 * Michelle Gordon || Behchoko || Michelle_Gordon@dogrib.learnnet.nt.ca ||
 * Frank Isherwood || Tulita || fisherwood@sahtudec.ca ||
 * Laura MacKinnon || Fort Providence || Laura.mackinnon@dehco.learnnet.nt.ca ||
 * George Hill || Taloyoak ||  ghill@kitikmeot.edu.nu.ca ||
 * Charlene Patterson || Arviat || patadachar@hotmail.com ||
 * Jay Mckechnie || Pond Inlet ||  jmckechnie@teachers.ntanu.ca ||
 * Jay Mckechnie || Pond Inlet ||  jmckechnie@teachers.ntanu.ca ||

Contract Writers/pilot support : Mindy Willett, Liz Fowler
This is the page we'll be working from during the pilot during the month of April, 2012. Attached here is a pamphlet that shows where some of the materials that are in the kit you have received originally came from. [ an exhibit developed by the Legacy of Hope Foundation].

A flag, for those of you keeners reading this before our teleconference - the teachers guide (orange, spiral binding) that is found inside the orange box with the wall posters and other stuff) is NOT the Teacher's Guide you'll be using during the pilot. You'll be using the white binder with Activities 1-11 in it. The orange book is interesting, and we pillaged a lot of material from that resource [and, absolutely, do take a look at it, but it's not what you're teaching from].
 * [[file:100years of loss_brochure.pdf]] ||

=__Pilot Unit Activities__=

=__Link to the audio and video files__= This link will get you to the audio and video clips that are connected to various activities http://jeffhipfner.com/ResidentialSchoolsCD/
 * [[file:Activity 1 Life with our Family final draft for pilot.pdf]] || [[file:Activity 2 Being taken away.pdf]] || [[file:Activity 3 RS through lens of apology (final pilot draft).pdf]] || [[file:Activity 4 apologizing for what (final pilot draft).pdf]] ||
 * [[file:Activity 5 on identity with pictures (final version for pilot).pdf]] || [[file:Activity 6 Creating the Residential School System (final draft pilot).pdf]] || [[file:Activity 7 Survivor Stories(final draft pilot).pdf]] || [[file:Activity 8 Brave and Influential Voices 2 (final draft pil.pdf]] ||
 * [[file:Activity 9 Justice and Compensation 2 (final draft pilot).pdf]] || [[file:Activity 10 From Truth to Reconciliation(final draft pilot).pdf]] || [[file:Activity 11 Hope for Tomorrow (final draft pilot).pdf]] ||  ||