Teacher's Guides
Teacher Guide for A Girl Called Echo
Learning About the History and Culture of the Métis Nation in Grades 6–8
The A Girl Called Echo series tells the story of Métis teenager Echo Desjardins, who is struggling to adjust to a new school and a new home while in foster care. Readers follow Echo as she travels through ...
Teacher Guide for the Sk'ad'a Stories
Intergenerational Learning and Storytelling in the Classroom
From the creators of Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony, the Sḵ'ad'a Stories series brings intergenerational learning to life. Haida children learn important life lessons from their Elders ...
Teacher Guide for This Place: 150 Years Retold
The graphic novel, This Place: 150 Years Retold, includes a variety of historical and contemporary stories that highlight important moments in Indigenous and Canadian history.
Written by Anishinaabe educator ...
Teacher Guide for Sugar Falls
Learning About the History and Legacy of Residential Schools in Grades 9–12
Sugar Falls is a story of strength, family, and culture that shares the awe-inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross. Taken away to a residential school, Betsy is forced to endure abuse and indignity, ...
Teacher's Guide for Pisim Finds Her Miskanaw
Pīsim Finds Her Miskanaw provides groundbreaking historical information about the culture and language of the Rocky Cree people around present-day South Indian Lake, Manitoba. The Teacher’s Guide for Pīsim ...
Siha Tooskin Knows Education Guide
The Siha Tooskin Knows Education Guide supports learning about and discussing the teachings, practices, and values of Paul Wahasaypa’s Nakota family and to support teachers, students, and families in ...
I Will See You Again Reader's Guide
In I Will See You Again the narrator learns of the death of her brother overseas and embarks on a journey to bring him home. Through memories and dreams of all they shared together and through her Dene ...
Surviving the City Teacher Guide
The Surviving the City Teacher Guide provides support for teachers addressing sensitive topics in the classroom (such as racism, caregiver illness, the child welfare system, residential schools, and ...
Teacher Guide for KC Adams' Perception: A Photo Series
As more and more school divisions in Canada adopt anti-racism policies, KC Adams’s Perception: A Photo Series, and the story of how it came about, provide an entry point for a discussion about racism ...
A Teacher's Guide to Student Inquiry
For Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story
A Teacher’s Guide to Student Inquiry for the graphic novel Betty: The Helen Betty Osborne Story is a FREE resource. The guide provides support for utilizing Betty in high school social studies courses. ...