The Rideau Hall Foundation and the EleV Program have partnered to grow the number of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis teachers in the education system by 10,000. The partnership enables a National Indigenous Education Advisory Committee co-chaired by Roberta Jamieson and Mark Dockstator to lead programming to accelerate and transform teacher training and employment opportunities. The Indigenous Teacher Education Initiative will directly invest in community-driven and innovative strategies towards increasing the representation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis teachers in classrooms.
The partnership will:
• Expand the number of qualified First Nations, Inuit, and Métis K-12 teachers to 10,000 in pursuit of a representative educator workforce
• Demonstrate innovation and scale promising new initiatives in First Nations, Inuit, and Métis educator pathway programming
• Create the conditions for meaningful and sustained Indigenous teacher employment
• Invest in Indigenous-led research outlining the opportunities and challenges related to First Nations, Inuit, and Métis teacher education and representative K-12 educational workforces
