Contact:

Juanita Coltman
District Principal - Aboriginal Education

 604 892-5228 Local 119

Aboriginal Education Committees

Aboriginal Education Advisory Committee

Membership and meeting dates, click <here>.

Aboriginal Education Targeted Funding Committee

Membership, click <here>

Shared Learnings/Cultural Resource Committee

  • Minutes - October 21, 2010, click <here>.
  • Aboriginal Education Rubric, click <here>.

Enhancement Agreement Steering Committee

For information regarding this Committee, including guidelines for the Committee, meeting dates in 2010 - 2011 and a list of Committee Members, click <here>.

Minutes from the October 29, 2010 EA Steering Committee Meeting, click <here>.

What is an Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement?  

An Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement (EA) is a working agreement between a school district, all local Aboriginal communities, and the Ministry of Education. EA’s are designed to enhance the educational achievement of Aboriginal students. The EA establishes a collaborative partnership between Aboriginal communities and school districts that involves shared decision-making and setting specific goals to meet the educational needs of Aboriginal students. This includes the integration of Aboriginal perspectives into learning experiences.

EA’s highlight the importance of academic performance and more importantly, stress the integral nature of Aboriginal traditional culture and languages to Aboriginal student development and success. Fundamental to EAs is the requirement that school districts provide strong programs on the culture of local Aboriginal peoples on whose traditional territories the districts are located.

Enhancement Agreements are intended to continually improve the quality of education achieved by all Aboriginal students.

SD48 Enhancement Agreement:
On Wednesday, May 10, 2007 the Ministry of Education approved the Aboriginal Education Enhancement Agreement. We are currently in our fourth year of implementation - click here to download a copy in pdf format.

EA Annual Report:
The performance goals established in EA process will be reassessed annually by School District No. 48 and the EA Steering Committee to ensure that they remain reasonable and attainable; as well as, represent meaningful progress toward achieving goals.

The Annual Report on the Performance of Aboriginal students in School District No. 48 will be submitted in the fall of each year to the EA Steering Committee, the Board of Education and the Ministry of Education. Click here to download a copy of 2009 - 2010 Annual Report in pdf format. Click here to view or download DRAFT 2010 - 2011 Annual Report in pdf format..

Click here to view a map of the First Nation territories indicating where the six Aboriginal communities are located.

"Shared Learnings” teacher contacts and Cultural Resource Committee:
The "Shared Learnings" Committee is made up of one teacher representative from each school in School District No. 48 and we work with the Cultural Resource Committee (made up of elders, community leaders, drummers/singers, storytellers, etc. from the local area). We bring the two groups together to develop locally relevant curriculum. Please visit our Aboriginal Website to view what we have been working on – click here http://www.sd48.bc.ca/aboriginal

The new version of Shared Learnings is currently available at http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/abed/documents.htm on the ministry website.

 

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