Week 5: Learning in Relation: Stories, Weather, and Community

October 16, 2025

This week, I revisited Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogy. I found myself returning to the idea that teaching and learning are living, relational acts. Goulet and Goulet write about classrooms as communities of belonging where knowledge is built collectively and where the relationships between people, place, … More Week 5: Learning in Relation: Stories, Weather, and Community

Week 4: Connection to Space and Content

October 9, 2025

This week, I’ve been sitting with Chapters 6 and 7 of Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogy by Goulet & Goulet. These chapters Weetutoskemitowin (Working Together: Social Systems) and Iseechigehina (Planned Actions: Connection to the Process) pushed me to think beyond how I connect to my students and toward how I connect students … More Week 4: Connection to Space and Content

Week 3: Connecting with Students

October 2, 2025

This week’s reading in Teaching Each Other focused around teacher student relationships. Goulet and Goulet poin out that these relationships are “foundational to engaging Indeginous children in learning” (p.98). The cree word that really stuck with me this week was weechihitowin– being helpful and supportive. I think by nature many teachers fall into this category … More Week 3: Connecting with Students

Week 2: Effective Teaching Framework

September 23, 2025

This week in Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts Goulet & Goulet started to really explore their conceptualiztion and model of effective teaching. Their model is a circle divided into four quadrants. A model that clearly takes it roots in Indigenous knowledge and beliefs (it echoes the medicine wheel teachings that show up across the Indigenous … More Week 2: Effective Teaching Framework