National Strategy on Inuit Education

Webinar

Mary Simon Chairperson,

National Committee on Inuit Education

An Unprecedented Collaboration In Inuit Nunangat

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Launch

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Summit

ITK Initiative on Education

Strategy Release Info Gathering

Summit on Inuit Education

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami

Nunavut Dept. Of Education

Kativik School Board

NWT Dept. of Education

Nfld. & Labrador Dept. of

Education/LSB

Government of Canada

Nunavut Tunngavik Inc.

Makivik Corporation

Inuvialuit Regional Corp.

Nunatsiavut Government

Pauktuutit Inuit

Circumpolar Council

National Inuit Youth Council

National Committee on Inuit Education

Why a National Strategy?

Graduation Rates.

Standards.

Supply and Demand Gap.

The National Strategy’s 10 Recommendations

Mobilizing Parents Improving Access

to Quality ECE

Filling the Gap of Measuring and

Assessing Success

A Standardized Inuit Writing

System

Increasing # Bilingual Educators

An Inuit University Building Post

Secondary Success

Investing in Students Who

Need Additional Support

Strengthening Inuit Centred

Curriculum

Developing Education Leaders

Mobilizing Parents

Inuit organization to tackle

low graduation rates

CBC News

Posted: Mar 30, 2013 10:39 AM CT

National Strategy on Inuit Education

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit organization, has started a campaign to come

up with solutions to address the low high school graduation rate in Inuit communities.

“The drop-out rate is very high in Inuit Nunangat, and we're trying to figure out ways

of increasing the level of graduation from high school, so that they have a chance to

go post-secondary education,” said Mary Simon, chair of ITK's National Committee

on Inuit Education.

The national committee's research shows students are missing on average 41 days

of school each year. That adds up to two full years by the time students reach high

school, and the committee says attendance is dropping.

Simon said there is no easy answer to the problem but that, as a first step, parents

need to be more involved.

Low Attendance

All the imaginative, Inuit-produced programs will be ineffective unless there are dramatic changes in terms of community-based norms regarding formal education.

Specifically, students need to be in school every day, all day, well rested and eager to learn. Achieving this goal will necessitate engaging the cooperation of every parent and caregiver in the community” .

• 2011 McGill University research project. Taylor, D.

National Campaign

July 2011

Amaujaq National Centre for Inuit Education