School board is first to offer virtual Indigenous language courses – Bay Today

November 22, 2024

‘Students can go from no awareness of the Nipissing dialect to being able to express conservatively hundreds of thousands of sentences in Ojibwe,’ the online teacher explained

The Near North District School Board (NNDSB) is offering online Ojibwe language courses for students throughout Ontario.

It’s the first board to so, the NNDSB mentioned in a release, and the lessons will be available to students throughout the 56 school boards in the province which are members of the Ontario eLearning Consortium. The courses will count as curriculum credits, as well.

Sarah Spence, the board’s principal of student achievement and well-being, said, “At NNDSB, we recognize the importance of Indigenous language revitalization and preservation, in fulfilling the Calls to Action related to language and in forwarding Truth and Reconciliation.”