 My name is Bailey Hansen. I live here and teach here in Malbukeke First Nations in Crown River, Newfoundland. I am the senior high science and math teacher and I also coordinate the adult basic education program that we hear we have here at a school that we teach adults in the evening. We do follow the provincial curriculum because well eventually all of our students are going to go to post-secondary and most of them do go within the province so we want to keep them on par with the province and that's what we do follow and we have an understanding with the Department of Education and stuff like that so we get resources and use all the same textbooks and all that. Sometimes we can adapt it how you know we would like to include our our culture and our values and stuff like that. Ecosystems is such a broad topic and it is through the curriculum is great through especially well all through the grades really you touch on some form of ecosystem so elders play a great part in being able to explain how an area used to be and how it is and how our ancestors used the land and be able to compare it to what the kids are used to. That's something that I've been working with closely I guess is one of the things that I oversee along with everything else is development of that coastal monitoring program and more specific to our area. Right now we're just focusing on grade 10 science the science 1206 but there's ways that it can be immersed in other curriculums as well so eventually it'll be but right now we're just focusing on that one there I just had a workshop on it like two weeks ago so yeah in this in the province of Newfoundland they're trying to all science curriculums are trying to put more emphasis on oceans and oceans learning because we are an island we're surrounded by the ocean and you know there's so many job opportunities out there for young individuals if they want to pursue something and then just to be familiar with it there's not many kids this day and age that are you know are used to that type of environment and in understanding and not like we you know we go back 50 years like everyone was a fisherman or a new fisherman or fish themselves you know what I mean is that is the culture has changed and just getting them back to understanding that and there was a need and that's where that oceans learning partnership came out of and then specifically the coastal islanding program so it's done in partnership with DFO and there's lots of other supporters but yeah DFO is one of the bigger supporters for that and Memorial University I teach my coordinate and I teach the math and we do in the evenings we have three evenings a week and we get students come in and they usually sign up we'll post it out to the community and we have about eight students this year working on their upgrading to get their high school equivalency and I'm gonna say I really enjoy it it's kind of like a breath of fresh air instead of teaching high school students because these people are so eager to get the work and want to do the work and and get it done you know that mentality and like sometimes what high school is sometimes like pulling T3 so but yeah it's a it's a nice contrast and I really enjoy it before I taught the math and was coordinating I used to teach the science and the same thing I found it really um enjoying and and give you kind of like um I don't know make you more humble yeah yeah like I tell my little girl I said mommy's gonna go teach night school to adults and it's very admirable that they've come back to finish it right you can't you can't knock them there so yeah very really good yeah exactly it's very rewarding and it's something that I enjoy and I'm glad that we keep that program here in the community so yeah and again we work closely with um the Department of Education and the coordinator that they have in there and we're always I'm always emailing her back and forth and getting direction and making sure that we we follow the same as the rest of the province so I think it just incorporates well you know you have your education but it just makes it it's rounding of a person I assume you know it's you teach not only academics and stuff we teach life skills and cultural and you know we do well I don't do a whole lot of it but I plan to but a lot of we're in this beautiful area that we can do a lot of land-based learning and I'm in development now with um it's a coastal monitoring program um specifically for science to be able to take students down to the beach and look and identify different organisms and compare the ecosystem on the shoreline and eventually hopefully be able to get out in a boat and see you a more marine environment and compare the two that way and is right in our backyard and then we can bring in well what did our grandparents do down here and um what was the fishing like and you know all that things that we can tie in there with our where we are and historically in our culture almost I can comment on what I've seen um as well I'm a fairly new teacher I've been teaching for six years but the language program has especially here in our school has done leaps and bounds from when I was in school like you ask me words in the language now I could probably paint painful of phrases and names and you know how you came to five and stuff like that but the kids down like they're having full on conversations and like it blows my mind and to see that progress is only going to get better you know what I mean so that's one big thing for me is the language seeing that revive is nice because it's tied in with everything yeah exactly it's like you don't have language you don't have anything really right so and and while just being more I guess culture where we are very culture where we're very culture based here but just always more but you can always build more and like I said myself I want to see myself do more land based learning um outside especially now that we're getting settled here so we've only been this our second year so um within 10 years I'm I'm sure I'm gonna have lots of good things to do and so I have a good plan on what to do so that's my hope and just build on what we have already which is a great great thing because you can you go down you can talk about the weather that particular day look at all the different um aspects of weather you can look at um you know just look around and see if there's any pollution or you know how do we affect that environment and you know that's like the social aspect of it all and then you you know you compare the ecosystem you look at that so that's the science of it and you know you can get your coordinates and have your you know compass and so you know you get your geography tied in there too so you know you can really find learning in anything you know I mean that's what that's what I think and you know if you approach it the right way you can almost teach anything from it you take away some kind of lesson from it something that's more fluid you know what I mean it's nothing that has to be structured to be if this is indigenous you know it should be more fluidic and you know it has culture and it has land based and it has academics and it has all these things tied into it so it's it's it's fluidic and it and it's hands on and it and it reaches the kids on so many different levels that's that's what I see it as it is it is fluidic