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NOVEMBER 3, 2021 – The following article was written by Sara Salazar, teacher at Martin Collegiate.

For the last two years, I have had the absolute privilege of teaching the Fine Arts Drama 9 rotation as a temporary teacher at Martin Collegiate during an ever-hanging pandemic. As if starting a new career and precarious work during a global pandemic wasn't stressful enough, you can imagine creating authentic theatrical experiences for drama students has been an interesting challenge.

NOVEMBER 1, 2021 -- A culture of innovation is building at The Crescents School. Monthly book clubs, vegetable fundraisers and home visits are just a few of the many inclusive ways that staff, students and the community are innovating together!

Teacher Rebekah Halvorsen has a star jar to help build community and responsibility within the Grades 1/2 classroom. By working together, students are filling the jar with stars so they can achieve goals that they collaboratively brainstorm. Some of those goals include extra technology time or more time to complete activities with partners.

OCTOBER 28, 2021 -- The ribbon skirt has been worn for centuries by Indigenous women. The original product would have been made from hides and then a design application would have been done with natural paint. As time passed, the European traders brought with them silk ribbon and cotton calico fabric to trade for furs. These trades then changed the design and look of ribbons skirts.

OCTOBER 27, 2021 -- Raelynn Smith’s Grades 7/8 class at Lakeview School has focused on learning more about truth and reconciliation over the past number of weeks in their classroom. They have worked in groups to demonstrate their learning and have created orange T-shirts out of paper to share the information with others in the school.

The students learned truths about residential schools in Canada. They learned about the discriminatory Indian Act that is still in place today. They examined copies of historical documents to learn about the pass and permit system and then read an article about farming policies meant to repress Indigenous farmers. Students also researched current social issues and injustices that plague Indigenous people today.

OCTOBER 27, 2021 -- On Wednesday, September 22^nd and Thursday, September 23^rd, the Grades 7/8 classes at Coronation Park Community School had the honour to visit the Regina Indian Industrial School (RIIS) cemetery off of Pinkie Road. Accompanied by Bill Wall from the RIIS Commemorative Association, students learned about the hardships and history during this important part of Canada’s past.

OCTOBER 26, 2021 -- On Tuesday, October 5^th, students in Thom Collegiate’s Grades 10 and 11 Indigenous Studies classes embarked on a journey for reconciliation.

Thom teachers, Elder Frank Caldwell, Indigenous Advocates Krista Sherman and Luke Blondeau, and the students travelled to Standing Buffalo First Nation, the Fort Qu’Appelle Treaty Four Education and Governance Centre and to the site of the former Lebret Residential School to engage in land-based learning and to reflect upon the personal implications of truth and reconciliation.