Based in Yellowknife, we provide training and mentorship to educators to bring their practice outdoors. We envision all educators in the NWT spending time connecting with nature and community as a regular and integrated part of their practice. Bushkids offers mentorships to teachers, with their students, to help them to feel comfortable implementing on-the-Land learning into their pedagogical approaches delivered in the public school system. Land led learning should be accessible to all children and youth. We are grounded in a Land-based philosophy where Indigenous and Euro-western world views co-exist in a mutually respectful and welcoming space (i.e. “ethical space”).
Contact
Wendy Lahey and Chloe Dragon-Smith – info@bushkids.ca