Diversify your French - Summer Webinar Series (Indigenous Worldview and Your French Classroom)

Expand your French teaching, curriculum, and worldview with the Diversify Your French Virtual Summer Sessions. Each week we will explore a dialect, a world region, or an aspect of French with educators that will help you make your classroom a more global, diverse and welcoming space. Connect with other educators looking to expand their practice and discover new resources. Register for one session or all four!

SESSION ONE:

Indigenous Worldview and Your French Classroom
Monday, July 10, 2023 | 1-2:15pm PT, 4-5:15pm ET
Session Presenter: M. Lauren-Rose Stunell

How do educators create meaningful lessons that work to encourage students in their journey towards Indigenous Truth and Reconciliation while also developing their student's target language? Learn from an educator who is responsible for helping do just that.

Session Presenter: M. Lauren-Rose Stunell is a non-Indigenous Settler, living and teaching on Treaty 7 land in Mohkinstsis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She is a French Immersion teacher who specializes in the integration of Indigenous education and ways of knowing with second language learning. In her commitment to her work towards Truth and Reconciliation, she has become a trusted ally and collaborator in the work. She seeks to authentically weave Indigenous ways of knowing and languages in a culturally responsive approach to support Indigenous students and all learners in their language development.