How Chief Atahm Elementary School Became a Success Story - The Tyee

ALSO IN THIS SERIES: SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES IN FIRST NATIONS EDUCATION How Chief Atahm Elementary School Became a Success Story ‘Most Teachers Don’t Know Who First Nations Are’ Welcome to Haida High Amidst the Big City, an Aboriginal Public School? Giving Aboriginal Students Words of Their Own (Click here for the complete list of stories.) [Editor’s note: Canada’s fastest-growing demographic, youngsters of First Nations, Metis, or Inuit heritage, face the bleakest outlook for employment, addiction and the risk of incarceration. Better education is key to changing that, experts agree. But the h…