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. That information can either stifle learning or further that student’s learning, the book posits. “In schools and classrooms…many folks have used assessment practices as gatekeeping practices…If we want education systems that are vibrant and exciting and places that… nurture and support us to continue to grow and to learn, then we have to understand assessment in a different way,” said Chrona, an educator, philosopher and member of the Kitsumkalum First…
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