Indigenous Initiatives Design Series (Registration deadline: June 20)

Registration is now open for the Indigenous Initiatives Design Series for STEM faculty and educators that will be taking place in July. The synchronous sessions are the mornings of July 12, 14, and 19 and participants must commit to attending all three. There will also be asynchronous prep/homework before and between the sessions. The deadline for registration is June 20, 2022. 

Ashley Welsh (Faculty Liaison in Skylight and CTLT) will be co-facilitating the series along with CTLT Indigenous Initiative members (Kyle Shaughnessy and Aimee Beauchamp) and Dana-Lyn Mackenzie in Applied Science.

Please visit the event page for more details.

Part 1: Tue, July 12, 9:30am-12:30pm PST 
Motivation and Context

This session explores “Where do I start?” This session explores the “big ideas” of your course or learning project and how to integrate Indigenous perspectives and topics into the fabric of what you are teaching and facilitating. Participants will consider your own motivations and interests for integrating Indigenous perspectives and topics in your course, aspects of your teaching contexts that may either support or challenge your efforts, and strategies for setting goals and mobilizing support.   

Part 2: Thu, Jul 14, 9:30am-12:30pm PST 
Positionality and Place

Building off previous work on Motivation and Context, we begin with the importance of locating yourself in relation to history and place in integrating Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in your courses and teaching practice. We will explore “where you are coming from” in relation to these topics and look at learning resources that may help provide background for introducing Indigenous topics related to your course or learning project content.

Part 3: Tue, July 19, 9:30am-12:30pm PST
Design Lab

In this final part, series participants will meet in a larger group that includes practitioners with more experience engaging with these topics to check in on goals, discuss what you have learned, and provide feedback on different ideas, techniques, and work-in-progress.