Facilitator Spotlight: Natalie Baloy

Natalie Baloy discusses her involvement in the CTLT Aboriginal Initiatives Classroom Climate series.

Learning About the Social Complexity Behind Aboriginal Student Data

Hanae Tsukada writes about her learning experience and illustrates the complexities behind Aboriginal student data.

More Than Content: Working Critically with Fear, Guilt, Privilege, and other “Hidden” Issues

Dr. Coll Thrush and Natalie Baloy discuss classroom conversations that are often fraught with a range of emotions.

Faculty Spotlight: Daniel Heath Justice and Lisa Nathan

Dr. Daniel Heath Justice and Dr. Lisa Nathan discuss their involvement in the Classroom Climate series.

Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Indigenous Foundations

Part of the Classroom Climate: Aboriginal Initiatives series, presenters shared approaches to teaching with Aboriginal content.

Here: Valuing, Recognizing and Acknowledging Place

As part of the Classroom Climate: Aboriginal Initiatives series, presenters spoke about teaching local histories present on campus.

Aboriginal Initiatives: Classroom Climate Series

Learn more about this year-long series, which combines mini-class lectures, interactive group activities, and one-on-one discussions.

Aboriginal (Un)History Month: Using Film to Create Dialogue at UBC

Maryel Sparks Cardinal discusses how her film course project raised awareness of Aboriginal history, and encouraged dialogue.

Supporting Aboriginal Students

At a recent Classroom Climate: Aboriginal Initiatives workshop, discussions arouse around how to best orient Aboriginal students to UBC.

Critical Thinking and Representation in Student Writing

As part of the series on Classroom Climate: Aboriginal Initiatives, Dr. Dory Nason presented a workshop specifically geared towards getting students to understand how to ethically represent the experiences of Aboriginal peoples.