Creating equitable learning environments.
This section offers approaches to decolonizing the classroom by centring respect, reciprocity and relationship. Explore practices such as land acknowledgements, group agreements, inclusive critiques and teachings from Braiding Sweetgrass to foster more equitable learning spaces.
Land Acknowledgements
Acknowledging territory honours Indigenous peoples’ histories and ongoing stewardship of these lands. It is a way to show respect and gratitude, while recognizing the impacts of settlement and colonization. In this section, learn how to create and offer a land acknowledgement.
Group Agreements
A group agreement helps students work together and build connections. It makes their shared responsibilities clear and supports a collaborative learning environment. Find out what they are and how to create one.
Critiques
Learn about ways to make the critique space and process more welcoming and less harmful to racialized students.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass shares Indigenous Anishinaabe worldviews and plant knowledge. It offers strategies for reciprocity and responsibility, guiding us toward more caring and sustainable ways of living.
Learn about the Braiding Sweetgrass study circle, established through an ECU teaching fellowship initiative.