Nexwinwéyalh - Teachings
Do your research, build relationships with communities and knowledge keepers, and Elders. Moving forward means being apart of these uncomfortable conversations sitting, and listening.
Share the traditional teachings during your lessons as teachers, there are many ways to learn, other than a Western Education.
- Spelex̱ílh, Anjeantte Dawson
My nexwinwéyalh
Community Engagement and Building
The teaching is “the work that we all do, we can’t do alone.” For example, at the beginning of our careers we start building relationships. We all have our gifts, and combined we address anything that comes our way. We must depend on our network to implement their knowledge and experience and come up with working plans and strategies together.
Community Wellness
I have sat with colleagues, teachers, parents, students, administrators, district principals, trustees Knowledge Keepers, and Elders. The goal is the same, we are here for our children, supporting in creating good human beings. The teaching has always been “to go into the work with an open heart and an open mind."
We Are All One
In order to do the work, one must not think or lead by their job titles. The teaching is, “we are all equal, no-one is above us and no-one is below us.”Regardless of their job title, once you walk through the doors, we are all equal. Doing the work requires deep reflection and looking at resistance to new ways of knowing
BC’s Indigenous-Focused Graduation Requirement:
Indigenous ways of knowing should have been honoured from the very beginning. Instead, Indigenous families and communities were displaced from their traditional territories and put into the residential school system.
Go into this work with an open mind and an open heart.
Ceremony during Covid May 2021
I live by my teachings