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A new curriculum is being proposed for Alberta grades K-6. On June 29, join us as we discuss the proposal with educators from @mountroyal4u, examining the potential benefits and challenges of the plan: bit.ly/35Cd2Mh #calgaryschools #yyc #yyckids
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Our new online database details 250+ books, poems, songs, art collections & websites by Indigenous creators. This resource will help K-12 teachers bring Indigenous storytelling into the classroom. Visit: ow.ly/sYIX50Ewdcm #WorldBookDay #Indigenousknowledge #abed #curriculum
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This is an incredibly helpful website for those who want to read different scholarly analyses of the draft Alberta curriculum. alberta-curriculum-analysis.…
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Reading Gayatri Spivak. “We all know that when we engage profoundly with one person, the responses come from both sides: this is responsibility and accountability...The object of ethical action is not an object of benevolence, for here responses flow from both sides.” – at Calgary, Alberta
OK. So. If we agree that curriculum development in AB requires the collective efforts of students, parents, experts, Elders and teachers operating at arm’s length from the provincial government, it makes no sense to sit around and wait for the government to create such a body.
Listening to Landemore discuss participatory democratic processes to address complex societal issues has me all fired up about the notion of a citizens’ assembly for curriculum development. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…
I’ve been thinking about the ethical space of consent in classroom-based assessment - what it is that students implicitly agree to when their learning is subjected to evaluation and how they assent to that information being used. Thoughts on who I should be reading on this topic?
If you are looking for a proper backstory on curriculum development in Alberta, start here. (You can probably end here, too; she’s that good.)
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Dr. Dwayne Donald interview with Windspeaker online regarding the UCP draft K-6 curriculum. bit.ly/DDonald-Windspeaker #indigenousknowledge #abed #abcurriculum
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Give all partners a seat at the table. Have set timelines for curriculum reviews.
Have a mandate for evidence-based practice that provides reviews of international research on areas of curriculum
Create a mandatory process for consultation on any changes
There has been much debate around the draft k-6 curriculum documents released by the Alberta government last week. Unlike most posts and opinion papers I’ve read, I *don’t* think our provincial government should make revisions to this curriculum. Hear me out.
Surely our ability to imagine democratic processes isn’t limited to one particular version of big government? Surely curriculum should be more than political football. We can absolutely do better than this.