In this session we will target the first guiding principle of an inclusive and competency-based IEP: place.

Place has deep and historical roots in indigenous pedagogy and we will look at how we can learn from this perspective to construct IEPs that are situated in the place-based and inclusive communities where students belong. We will also look at a strategy that will support inclusive and competency-based IEP development by aiming to increase the places where students are included.

Our guest for this session is Joanne Chrona, Ganhada of Waap K’oom of the Kitsumkalum First Nation, a Tsm’syen Community in BC. Jo talks to us about how place originates with, and is deeply connected to, Indigenous ways of knowing and being.