\u00a0By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com By implementing new assessment practices that emphasize Indigenous knowledge systems and perspectives, educators \u201ccan reclaim humanity\u2026for all learners,\u201d write co-editors Jo Chrona and Brooke Moore in their new bookSag\u0331aytg\u0331awdi: Grounding Assessment in Indigenous Knowledges for Equity and Well-Being. Assessment is the process of gathering information in order to understand a student\u2019s learning. That information can either stifle learning or further that student\u2019s learning, the book posits. \u201cIn schools and classrooms\u2026many folks have used assessment practices as gatekeeping practices\u2026If we want education systems that are vibrant and exciting and places that\u2026 nurture and support us to continue to grow and to learn, then we have to understand assessment in a different way,\u201d said Chrona, an educator, philosopher and member of the Kitsumkalum First… <\/p>\n
\u00a0By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com By implementing new assessment practices that emphasize Indigenous knowledge systems and perspectives, educators \u201ccan reclaim humanity\u2026for all learners,\u201d write co-editors Jo Chrona and Brooke Moore in their new bookSag\u0331aytg\u0331awdi: Grounding Assessment in Indigenous Knowledges for Equity and Well-Being. Assessment is the process of gathering information in order to understand a student\u2019s learning. That information can either stifle learning or further that student\u2019s learning, the book posits. \u201cIn schools and classrooms\u2026many folks have used assessment practices as gatekeeping practices\u2026If we want education systems that are vibrant and exciting and places that\u2026 nurture and support us to continue to grow and to learn, then we have to understand assessment in a different way,\u201d said Chrona, an educator, philosopher and member of the Kitsumkalum First... <\/p>\n