 Empowering the Spirit is a collection of resources curated to increase awareness and understanding of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit histories, perspectives, and ways of knowing. This website provides support for a variety of professional learning contexts through three main areas, foundational knowledge, leading the learning, and classroom supports. Use the top menu bar to organize and focus your learning around each area, or use the menu built into the home page. Start with a foundational knowledge section of the site to build understandings of concepts, terms, and knowledge, shift your thinking and attitudes, and advance reconciliation. The resources in this area of the website support you as you start your journey, dig deeper, and explore further links. Start your journey by identifying and building understandings of concepts, terms, and knowledge. Dig deeper with foundational resources that can facilitate both independent study and group learning. This webpage connects you to resources that help you develop, apply, and deepen your awareness and understanding of foundational knowledge, including a link to the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit professional learning website that provides varied resources for building foundational knowledge, direct access to a series of ARPDC conversation guides for use by instructional leaders and learning communities, or as a self-paced study, as well as supporting resources that reinforce and deepen your learning. Then explore the further links webpage to continue to build your knowledge and understandings. Go to the leading the learning section of the site to support professional learning, using promising practices, illustrative examples from school jurisdictions, and supporting resources from Alberta Education. Find resources on this webpage to support staff development, including a facilitator guide for the foundational knowledge conversation guide series, found on the Digging Deeper webpage, direct links to professional learning processes on the First Nations, Métis, and Inuit professional learning website, as well as planning tools for leaders and communities of practice, literacy and numeracy supports, and additional resources for leading and supporting professional learning. Explore promising practices, resources, and supports developed by Alberta districts on this webpage, and use the From Alberta Education webpage to access links and documents that support the mandatory inclusion of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives and experiences in current and future curriculum in Alberta, including those identified in the professional practice standards. The classroom support section of Empowering the Spirit presents and builds on the Weaving Ways resource, an introductory guide developed to support teachers in considering how Indigenous knowledge systems can support a rich experience for students in their classrooms. As with the four quadrants of the Medicine Wheel, the four webpages in this section of the site are interconnected, and assist teachers in the design of meaningful teaching and learning opportunities that weave together Indigenous ways of knowing with Western pedagogical practices for the benefit of all students and our collective journey towards reconciliation. Find resources on the Cultures of Belonging webpage for fostering whole-school approaches that invite teaching and learning around Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and relating to promote a sense of belonging for all students. Use resources for experiential learning opportunities that accurately reflect and demonstrate the strength and diversity of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit. As well as resources that guide educators and students in becoming aware of the connection between mind, body, heart, and spirit. Use resources on the Instructional Design webpage to create culturally responsive instructional designs that value Indigenous and other knowledge systems as powerful drivers of learning, and that promote cultural appreciation and advanced reconciliation. Find resources on the Pedagogy webpage to support pedagogies that embrace Indigenous ways of knowing, and approaches to teaching and learning that include purposeful thinking about people, places, and processes. And use the link to the First Nations Métis and Inuit Professional Learning website, which provides resources and activities specific to learning outcomes in all core subjects, as well as general teaching resources that support effective pedagogical approaches and subject-specific links and resources. Access resources on sharing through story that focus on the power of story by encouraging and building deeper connections to learning outcomes for students through the art of storytelling in all its varied forms. Empowering the Spirit is designed as a support for educators to increase awareness and understanding of First Nations Métis and Inuit histories, perspectives, and ways of knowing. The collection of tools, videos, and resources found within Empowering the Spirit lends support to teachers and school leaders as they endeavor to weave Indigenous knowledge systems into their current practices.