Main Message
The main argument of the chapter
What is schooling often privileges alphabetic literacy and colonial ideas of achievement while overlooking Indigenous ways of knowing and learning.
Name 1 way learning can happen outside the classroom
What is learning can take place on the land, in ceremony, in the community, or with Elders
Privileges of colonial schooling
What are colonial ideas about knowledge, literacy, and success
Influences of a student's sense of belonging at school
What are safety, culture, relations, and feeling understood
Highlighted responsibility of the teacher in the article
What is reflect on personal bias
The author uses to explain her argument
What is 3 personal narrative stories
Learning on the land develops
What is knowledge and responsibilities
Highlight of the 1st Story
What is racism can affect daily safety, and whose interpretation of events is believed
Racism in the 1st Story
What is racism shapes of daily safety, and whose interpretation of the event is believed
Teachers building with Indigenous communities
What are respectful relationships and community connections
Alphabetic Literacy
What is reading and writing using letters and written text
Elders teaching contribution
What are the shared knowledge, teachings, and relationships that support indigenous learning
Deficit-based student explanation
What is an explanation that focuses on perceived shortcomings instead of considering the student's strengths and circumstances
The fallout of a misunderstood student's grief
What is the student's circumstances may be misread as disengagement or poor behavior
This reading is either a controlled experiment or a quantitative study
What is neither. It is a narrative and reflective piece, grounded in lived experience and cited scholarship
Reason why the author shares stories
What is to show how discrimination, ways of knowing, and experiences shape literacy, identity, and belonging
Challenges of multiple ways of learning
What is the idea that written literacy and classroom instruction are the only legitimate forms of knowledge
Indigenous content to a lesson, not enough
What is decolonizing practice also requires examining classroom structures, assumptions, and relationships as well
Steps to take by the teacher regarding the student's behavior
What is actively listening, asking relevant questions, being respectful, and considering students' circumstances
Teachers generalizing indigenous students
What is these stories are powerful examples, but they do not represent every indigenous student, family, or nation
Educators need to reconsider
What is achievement being defined narrowly through current schooling stadnards
Incorporate land-based learning
What is by building relationships with local Indigenous communities and following their guidance about appropriate teachings and practices
Educators avoid applying this reading to lived experiences
What is generalizing specific practices across all First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities
Teachers protecting students' dignity while maintaining learning goals
What is to create a flexible, relationship-centered plan that supports learning without shaming the studnet
Decolonizing first response to an indigenous student who misses several days
What is check in privately, listen without assumptions, consider the student's circumstances and and work together on a supportive plan