 Ways to access indigenous wisdom and knowledge can't just be done solely off internet research. I would encourage anyone to reach out to community. It must be done through elders. When you sit with elders and you sit with community and you ask those questions, you sort of get a better sense of their life, their perspective, their ways of knowing and doing. And that in turn I think impacts educators in the classroom. And watching an elder speak to a class is a literacy lesson in itself. And watching the kids engage with the community member or elder or traditionalist is really rewarding. A lot of people are waiting for a new curriculum to come. A lot of people are waiting for a teacher quality standard to be solidified. We don't have to wait for all of those things to be mandated. It should have happened ten, five years ago. It can be happening now. So bringing in literature is the easiest way to start bringing in foundational knowledge into your classroom and start expanding the minds of students that you teach. I think one of the biggest things that teachers can be doing to enhance their own literacy and level of understanding is picking up the calls to action and understanding what role do you play in reconciliation and how is literacy going to impact your class and you as a change agent. I always start with the ancestors. So if you can access local knowledge keepers within your space, if you can access elders, if you can access language keepers, if you can access knowledge keepers, of course we know that our elders are getting older and sometimes we give them a lot of jobs and we ask a lot of them but it's okay to ask those younger elders too. It's okay to ask those escapios and it's okay to ask those people who are learning, who are just learning their experience and maybe the elders helper. So access those people in your community and create relationship with indigenous educators. Look at consultants, look at liaisons and really create kind of that relationship extend. Other practical ways might be using the circle in your classroom. When you're sharing, when you're turn taking, using that circle model, ensuring that children can't talk unless they have a talking stick, a sacred rock or a sacred stick. So kind of using that model of weight, weight and listen, listen and learn and that's a deep way of learning because often in spaces of learning it's usually the children who are the loudest, who are the most assertive, who get to take those turns and when you nurture a place of turn taking, it's a wonderful place to ensure that all people are part of that collective, all people are part of that collective wheel and that creates balance, that creates harmony in our classrooms and it creates harmony in our greater local communities too. Another great way would be to honor the seven sacred teachings using that as character development. If you're in a public school honing into that, you know, in a Catholic school system those are essentially all good ways, the basis of living and so kind of nurturing courage, nurturing humility, humbleness, nurturing all of those seven sacred teachings and using that as a model and a guide in your classroom. Ensuring that it's posted, is it posted at the front of your room, is it posted around your room? Can children see that? Do you explore that daily? Our children honored and I've heard elders say we need to honor the teachers, we need to honor our elders and we need to honor our students. So how do we honor our students? We need to look at those seven sacred teachings and how we infuse that into our daily practice of being in our classroom. I think you can incorporate a lot of indigenous ways of doing or traditional education methods in the classroom all the time. One is through the circle process. Reading a book and then just having a discussion in the circle about what does that mean for you. It could be done in kindergarten, it could be done in grade 12. Anyone can do model the circle process. As long as you're following those guidelines and you speak to elders and community members about how to properly do that in your classroom. Another great suggestion is to bring in an elder or a traditional storyteller. Have them show you how traditional storytelling was done. And then try to model that in your own classroom. Try to model how kids could be telling stories through just an oral process. I remember reading a few different stories, particularly one was about Wisaki Chak. And Wisaki Chak is a Cree trickster. And there's many stories about Wisaki Chak and how he's always trying to trick people but there's always a moral to the story. There's a reason why things are the way they are. And I remember trying to bring that into the classroom and talk about stories in a way that was engaging. So I actually just sort of tried to remember the stories. I put the book down and then I would just do the stories out loud through my own memory. And it was actually quite surprising how engaged all the students were. They liked that excitement and it's great practice for educators to try. What do I want to see different in modern day classrooms? I would love to see the traditional teachings of that territory posted on the walls, respected. I would love to hear in the morning greeting when the principal gets on the big system and says, good morning, we're in Treaty 6. I'd love to hear Tensei or if you're in the Northwest Territories, I'd love to hear Tantei or I'd love to hear Chima Gwich or I'd love to hear all the beautiful indigenous languages being addressed by leadership and by the teachers. And I'd love to see an active involvement with cultural keepers and knowledge keepers in the schools. I'd love for students to be using the language as much as possible and being genuine with it and being grateful that they are in this territory wherever they're involved in. That's what I'd love to see.