The Department of Education, Culture and Employment (ECE) has released a “What We Heard Report” that presents the findings from the first round of engagement on modernizing the Northwest Territories (NWT) Education Act. Some of the themes ECE heard are to
- further involve, enable and empower Indigenous and local community governments to take part in decision-making about the future of education;
- the need to take meaningful and urgent action to foster and revitalize Indigenous languages;
- the need to continue conversations around how education resources are deployed and how programs are developed and implemented; and
- to not rush the process of Education Act modernization.
- more conversation and collaboration is needed to ensure Indigenous governments and communities across the NWT can meaningfully lead and participate in the future of education.
Modernizing the Act will help move barriers to student learning, improve the ability to implement system-wide improvements and to hold education bodies accountable for student achievement.