Aansaamb Aen Kiskayhtaamhk: Learning Together PART TWO

“Aansaamb aen kiskayhtaamhk ` Learning Together” is a professional learning guide, resource kit and three professional development workshops intended to support early learning and child care professionals to integrate Métis content in early years programming. The workshops provide additional opportunities to support incorporating Métis specific teachings within early learning programming, promoting learning environments in which Métis culture is recognized and celebrated. Session two introduces the Métis Core Values related to learning. It also addresses the concept of cultural safety and provides strategies on how to create a culturally safe learning environment to support the well-being of all children.

Coleen Berg has been in the Early Learning field for the last 20 years as an Early Childhood Educator in a wide variety of programs from preschool to family childcare and everything in between. As a proud Métis woman and mother to 2 Métis children, Coleen is especially passionate about sharing her vibrant culture and helping to create culture-rich opportunities for Indigenous children to see themselves reflected and represented in their learning environments. She is a Childcare Navigator with Métis Nation of BC (MNBC). In her spare time, she loves to spend time with her family, read a good book and get outside.