Erica Reid Educator

The Professional Development Day had two amazing keynote speakers who taught about decolonizing classrooms to indigenize classrooms. They were very moving perspectives and approaches to infusing and incorporating Indigenous ways of knowing and being. As a Haida and Tsimshian woman it helped shed light on how important it is to …

Four weeks of practicum at teaching 50% of the day went by extremely fast. I learned how challenging time, and routine management is in a classroom at this difficult global pandemic time. Washing hands upon entering, and leaving the classroom meant there was a lot of hand washing happening. There …

I chose a Chilkat Pouch because education is much like the weaving of this pouch. The pouch has trading and Devil’s Club beads so it is interconnected, multifaceted and healing. In these ways it carries the metaphors of educating with culture and healing for our children.

Lindsay Galbraith was my most influential teacher on my path to becoming an educator. Lindsay was instructing a UNBC Geography course in Skidegate, Haida Gwaii. I was on a path learning about the colonial impacts on the indigenous people of this country in a previous class with another instructor. I …