The curriculum extends Indigenous perspectives into the entire learning journey, rather than into specific courses or grade levels. This means from Kindergarten to graduation, students will experience Indigenous perspectives and knowledge as part of what they are learning.  References both explicit and implicit in the curriculum are evident in the rationale statements, goals, learning standards, and some of the elaborations.  Rich instructional samples to inspire teaching and learning are continually being collected and shared online to provide examples of relevant teaching units and place-based learning.  In all of the areas of learning, teachers are encouraged to teach in ways that respect the place in which the students are — to teach from within the school and its surrounding community.

Online Indigenous Resources

SD22 Aboriginal Education Resources

Our own SD22 Aboriginal Education department has collated a variety of resources to use through their website an the District Resource Centre

First Nations Education Steering Committee

 FNESC and the First Nations Schools Association, in collaboration with teachers and partners, have developed a set of teacher resources -  Learning First Peoples series - to support various courses.

First Peoples Principles of Learning

 First Peoples’ Principles of Learning represent an attempt to identify common elements in the varied teaching and learning approaches that prevail within particular First Nations societies, it must be recognized that they do not capture the full reality of the approach used in any single First Peoples’ society.

Indigenous  Resource Inventory 

​This inventory is a non-comprehensive list of Indigenous education resources that has been compiled by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the British Columbia Teacher’s Federation, the First Nations Education Steering Committee, and Métis Nation British Columbia.