Teach For Canada strives to represent a new kind of partnership between a non-profit organization and a First Nations community. We recognize that there have been many one-sided relationships in First Nations education within Canada's history, and we have attempted to build a new model for working together; one built on trust, transparency, and an understanding that the process is - and will always be - community-directed.
At the present time, Teach For Canada works with Cree, Ojibwe, and Oji-Cree communities in Treaty 3, 5, and 9 in northern Ontario.
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Beginning in northern Ontario, we are building partnerships with First Nations that face challenges recruiting, preparing, and retaining teachers. Our program has no cost to our community partners other than the ordinary salaries of the teachers they hire. Our community partners take part in every stage of our recruitment, selection, preparation, and support initiatives. If you are a First Nation education leader, please contact us.
Teach for Canada's core values--humility, culture, collaboration, and transparency--represent a desire for collaboration, co-creation, and partnership with communities. To this end, an Advisory Council composed of community members has been established to provide community-driven advisory capacity to the organization.
In July 2017, the Advisory Council gathered in Thunder Bay for its fourth bi-annual meeting. In addition to reviewing program updates and welcoming five new community partners--Bearskin Lake First Nation, Cat Lake First Nation, Grassy Narrows First Nation, Sachigo Lake First Nation, and Slate Falls Nation--topics of discussion included: