Actions and Commitments

Call to Action # 62: Education for Reconciliation (62-65)

Official signing of Indigenous Education Blueprint

December 18, 2015

Official signing of Indigenous Education Blueprint by all Manitoba Universities and Colleges and the Manitoba School Boards Association. All signatories commit to:

  • Engaging with Indigenous peoples in respectful and reciprocal relationships and to realize the right to self-determination, and to advance reconciliation, language and culture through education, research and skill development;
  • Bringing Indigenous knowledge, languages and intellectual traditions, models and approaches into curriculum and pedagogy;
  • Promoting research and learning that reflects the history and contemporary context of the lives of Indigenous peoples;
  • Increasing access to services, programs, and supports to Indigenous students, to ensure a learning environment is established that fosters learner success;
  • Collaborating to increase student mobility to better serve the needs of Indigenous students;
  • Building school and campus communities that are free of racism, value diversity and foster cultural safety;
  • Increasing and measuring Indigenous school and post-secondary participation and success rates;
  • Showcasing successes of Indigenous students and educators;
  • Reflecting the diversity of First Nations, Inuit and Métis cultures in Manitoba through institutional governance and staffing policies and practices; and
  • Engaging governments and the private and public sectors to increase labour market opportunities for Indigenous graduates.