Free Teacher’s Guide For We Need Everyone
Many educators have been happy to find out that We Need Everyone has a free Teacher’s Guide, written by Jerica Fraser and available from the HighWater Press website!
Description
Written by Michael Redhead Champagne, an award-winning Ininew (Cree) community advocate, public speaker, author and a proud member of Shamattawa First Nation, We Need Everyone empowers children to identify their gifts and use them to overcome challenges, achieve goals, and strengthen communities. Inspiring and uplifting, this interactive picture book ignites children’s natural curiosity, while also developing their respect and appreciation for Indigenous knowledges.
With the Teacher Guide for We Need Everyone, educators of grades 1 to 3 can provide multiple opportunities for students to learn about the diversity within and across Indigenous communities, histories, knowledges, and perspectives, while exploring their own unique histories, beliefs, identities, cultures, and gifts. This helpful guide explores key connections and themes in We Need Everyone including:
building strong communities
celebrating diversity within and across lived experiences and identities
exploring and discovering individual gifts
examining identity and sense of belonging
reviewing Indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing, being, and doing
and more!
