Breathing Your Culture into the BCACCS Curriculum Kits

Suitable for all early learning professionals and parents.

Presenter: Jennie Roberts (BC Aboriginal Child Care Resource & Referral)

Join the BCACCS Aboriginal Child Care Resource and Referral (ACCRR) team as they share their process in developing cultural curriculum kits for early learning programs. The ACCRR has been developing and lending cultural resource kits for over a decade and is one of the most frequently borrowed resources through our library.

Our kits have been designed in hopes that individual communities will be able to add their own languages, stories and teachings as they use them with the children. In this workshop we will share our approach to building kits, resources for finding materials, and developing resource sheets to support the kits. Our team will share our ideas on how we hope programs and educators will bring their own knowledge, teachings and languages to the BCACCS kits or how they could build kits of their own.

Jennie is Ojibway but, identifies as Stó:l? Xwelxwelmexw and resides on Tzeachten First Nation. She has been working with children and families for over 35 years. Jennie has a certificate in ECE from the University of Fraser Valley in collaboration with Seabird Island 2004. In 2005 she received her Special Needs License to Practice by attending night classes at the University of the Fraser Valley; while working as a Head Start Coordinator at Seabird Island. She was able to complete her Infant Toddler/ Early Childhood Education and Care Diploma in 2016. In 2018, Jennie also completed her Speech and Language Assistant through Seabird College.