By Heidi Atter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent Innu students heading into Kindergarten will now have the ability to be fully immersed in their own language, following years of work since \u00a0Innu reclaimed jurisdiction over education in 2009. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of English everywhere, so we don\u2019t need that,\u201d said \u00a0Francesca Snow, a retired teacher and the curriculum developer with Mamu \u00a0Tshishkutamashutau Innu Education (MTIE). \u201cThey need to teach the kids \u00a0their own language, or they will lose the language.\u201d Snow said she has enjoyed making the curriculum. \u201cI focus on when I \u00a0was teaching kindergarten,\u201d she said, \u201cand I want that teacher to know \u00a0how to teach and how to set up the classroom in both languages.\u201d Snow has prepared short sentences, picture vocabularies, workbooks and more in… <\/p>\n
By Heidi Atter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Independent Innu students heading into Kindergarten will now have the ability to be fully immersed in their own language, following years of work since \u00a0Innu reclaimed jurisdiction over education in 2009. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of English everywhere, so we don\u2019t need that,\u201d said \u00a0Francesca Snow, a retired teacher and the curriculum developer with Mamu \u00a0Tshishkutamashutau Innu Education (MTIE). \u201cThey need to teach the kids \u00a0their own language, or they will lose the language.\u201d Snow said she has enjoyed making the curriculum. \u201cI focus on when I \u00a0was teaching kindergarten,\u201d she said, \u201cand I want that teacher to know \u00a0how to teach and how to set up the classroom in both languages.\u201d Snow has prepared short sentences, picture vocabularies, workbooks and more in... <\/p>\n