Small changes in the classroom can create supportive environments for individual student success

By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com By implementing new assessment practices that emphasize Indigenous knowledge systems and perspectives, educators “can reclaim humanity…for all learners,” write co-editors Jo Chrona and Brooke Moore in their new bookSag̱aytg̱awdi: Grounding Assessment in Indigenous Knowledges for Equity and Well-Being. Assessment is the process of gathering information in order to understand a student’s learning.