A group of teachers from England met with MK on February 14, 2005 to learn about the educational needs of our Mi’kmaw students who are attending provincial schools and how do we strive to meet those needs.  In England, all secondary students and approximately 75% if the primary schools have some ethnic pupils from multiple cultural backgrounds.  As such, the students and the teaching staff in those schools are faced with cultural challenges which are similar to those faced in our provincial education system.  Some of the topics discussed were racism, programming for teaching language and culture, parental involvement, and student data information systems.  The group of teachers demonstrated keen interests in the MK initiatives and were looking forward to visit some of the schools in First Nation Communities.

Lauretta J. Welsh,

Director, Finance and Planning

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