Lunch and Learn Series: Examining Culturally Responsive Learning Environments (Day 2)

Date	Day	Time	Room	Location
April 15, 2025	Tuesday	12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

 

Indigenous Education and Community Engagement, in partnership with the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Research, is honored to present this online lunch and learn series with renowned educator, speaker and storyteller Carolyn Roberts. Carolyn is a St’at’imc and Sto:lo woman belonging to the Thevarge family from N'quatqua Nation and the Kelly Family from the Tzeachten Nation and a member of the Squamish Nation. She is the author of Re-Storying Education and holds the position as an Indigenous academic and faculty lecturer in the Teacher Education Department at UBC.

Examining Culturally Responsive Learning Environments

This is an invitation to step into the work of decolonizing teacher practice. In this series of five workshops, you will have opportunities to learn and unlearn the history of this land. Carolyn will take you on a walk through the building of Canada with the colonial structures that have harmed and continue to harm the Indigenous peoples of this land. Within these conversations you will have the opportunity to deepen your understandings of the impact of colonization on the education system and learn about ways you can contribute to changing the system for the next generations. As we gain deeper understandings, we will also work through how we can learn about, talk about, and teach about race and racism in our classrooms. Carolyn will support you in educational practices that can give you ways to engage with difficult conversations and allow you time to work through some steps to have these conversations. We will end our time together learning about what Indigenous practices look like in action in the classroom. We will walk through many ways you can put these practices in to work within your own teaching practice. There will be plenty of time to work through ideas, talk through ways to engage, and places to go for support in this learning journey.

All sessions are presented through this same Zoom link. To add this series to your Outlook calendar, please use this ICS file. For more support, please email iasupport@vcc.ca.

Day 1: A walk through the history of colonization

Day 2: Creating culture of safety in classrooms/ Anti-Indigenous-Racism

Day 3: Cultural Appropriation

Day 4: Indigenous teaching practice, including decolonizing practices in practice

Day 5: Culturally responsive pedagogy in the classroom

This lunch and learn speaker series will run Tuesday's starting April 8, 2025 and running until Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from 12:00pm - 1:00pm.