CMEC INDIGENOUS EDUCATION PLAN (IEP), 2023–27 “Education is the key to

CMEC INDIGENOUS EDUCATION PLAN (IEP), 2023–27 “Education is the key to reconciliation.” – The Honourable Murray Sinclair, former Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada1 BACKGROUND • Members of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) have identified Indigenous education as one of the priorities in their annual work plans, and in the CMEC Strategic Plan. [...] • The work of CMEC represents one of the means available to ministers to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRCC) Calls to Action, particularly Call to Action 63,2 and to act in the spirit of the objectives and principles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. [...] Developing and implementing Kindergarten to Grade Twelve curriculum and learning resources on Aboriginal peoples in Canadian history, and the history and legacy of residential schools. [...] • ensure that First Nations, Métis, education policies, programs, and and Inuit learners have access to resources; Incorporating First Nations, Métis, and culturally relevant and responsive • build cultural competence among Inuit ways of knowing, doing, being, and supports to navigate their lifelong non-Indigenous educators, becoming, within the work of CMEC. [...] Report on challenges and barriers to being for First Nations, Métis, and cultures, histories, and modern training, recruitment, and retention of Inuit learners, staff, and faculty realities of First Nations, Métis, and Indigenous-language teachers, and members, with particular attention Inuit peoples in Canada, including compile a summary of significant to the impacts of the COVID-19 curriculum re.