Witnessing reciprocity ACCOUNTABILITY COMMUNITY
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ctlt indigenous initiatives
CLASSROOM CLIMATE FORUM
December 11, 2024
9:00am – 3:30pm
Dodson Room, Level 3, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC Canada
About
Please join the CTLT Indigenous Initiatives Team for their inaugural Classroom Climate Forum. Expect a day of connecting, witnessing, learning, and laughs as we move together through curated sessions and facilitated conversations created to engage participants in relationally led learning by campus partners and the CTLT Indigenous Initiatives team.
Please note that this session will be in person with no virtual component. Masks and sanitizer will be provided for those who wish to use them. We kindly ask that you do not attend if you are experiencing any respiratory illness symptoms.
What to Expect
Expect a day of learning and reflection, with curated sessions and discussions created to ignite meaningful discussion. Our goal in creating the Classroom Climate Forum is to provide the foundation for conversation, what we talk about will be guided by you and your peers. We ask that you show up with an open mind and an open heart, ready to learn with and from your colleagues across campus.
Lunch will be provided by West Coast Bannock and include vegetarian and gluten friendly options. Light refreshments will be made available throughout the day. While a variety of options will be available throughout the day that should meet a variety of dietary needs, please do note hesitate to reach out to us if you have allergies that we should be aware of.
Agenda
Morning
- Light refreshments and visiting
- Featured Workshop: From Reverence to Erasure to Queer Indigenous Joy: Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Realities Over Time
- Introduction to the Indigenous Peoples Giant Floor Map from Kayla Lar-son at Xwi7Xwa
Afternoon
- Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel Heath Justice
- Classroom Climate Discussion Forum, a dedicated opportunity to connect in a facilitated discussion and reflection with peers.
- Indigenous Classroom Climate Discussion Forum, a hosted space will be provided for Indigenous staff, faculty, and students to discuss topics of classroom climate specific to their experiences as Indigenous teaching and learning community members at UBC.
Meet the Keynote
Dr. Daniel Heath Justice
Daniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born citizen of the Cherokee Nation. He is Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies and English and Distinguished University Scholar at UBC. His scholarship in literary and cultural history and his creative work in Indigenous wonderworks and speculative fiction focus on Indigenous nationhood, belonging, and other-than-human kinship. His most recent book, co-edited with White Earth Ojibwe historian Jean M. O’Brien, is Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege (2021), a globe-spanning anthology on Indigenous responses to land privatization.
Kinder Classrooms in Crueler Times
Please join us in a conversation with Dr. Daniel Heath Justice on ways instructors can create a supportive, thoughtful, and productive classroom climate for students. He is the author of the “Demanding Kinder Classrooms Doesn’t Make You a Snowflake”, a reading that will be helpful to read in preparation for our facilitated discussion.
Feature Workshop
From Reverence to Erasure to Queer Indigenous Joy: Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Realities Over Time
Facilitation by:
- Kyle Shaughnessy, Indigenous Educational Consultant, Staff Training
- Janelle Kasperski, Educational Consultant, Strategic Projects,
Often when discussing the representations and realities of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer (2SIQ) people, there is a focus on the history and attempted erasure of gender and sexual diversity within Indigenous communities. However, that attempt was not successful. While we have been left with complexities to address and untangle, the stories and kinship practices have not only survived they have flourished anew. Join us for this session as we explore where we have been and shift our focus into contemporary spaces and embodiments of queer Indigenous joy and survivance.