1.
The Indigenous Education Network Presents:
Strengthening
Aboriginal
Success:
Aboriginal
Education
and
the
Council
of
Ministers
of
Education,
Canada
Who: Dr. Christy R. Bressette, Council of Minister of Education, Canada
Where: OISE Room 2211, 2nd Floor, 252 Bloor Street West
When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
The Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) first declared Aboriginal education to
be a priority issue in 2004. This was reaffirmed in 2008 in the CMEC ministerial declaration,
Learn Canada 2020.
CMEC’s coordinator for Aboriginal Education, Dr. Christy R. Bressette, will share examples
of programs, policies, and practices from individual provinces and territories that are helping
to eliminate the gap in academic achievement and graduation rates between Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal students.
She will also review key CMEC-sponsored pan-Canadian activities on Aboriginal education
such as the CMEC Summit on Aboriginal Education, the CMEC Technical Workshop on Pan-
Canadian Aboriginal Data, and the CMEC Educators’ Forum on Aboriginal Education.
Bio: Dr. Christy Rochelle Bressette is an Anishinabe parent, student, teacher, and community
member of Kettle and Stony Point First Nation. On June 23, 2008, Christy successfully
defended her doctoral dissertation, Understanding Success in Community First Nation
Education Through Anishinabe Meno-Bimaadziwin Action Research, making her the first
Aboriginal student at the University of Western Ontario to earn a Ph.D. in Educational Studies.
She is an active supporter of programs designed to empower Aboriginal youth and increase
parental engagement and community participation in education.
OISE is a leader in Aboriginal education and is among the first Canadian faculties of education to prioritize Aboriginal
values and educational research following the signing of the Accord on Indigenous Education by the Association of
Canadian Deans of Education (ACDE) in June 2010.