I am forever grateful to be living and learning on the traditional, unceded territories of the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc People. I thank them for the use of their sacred land.
The current curriculum is so fantastically made that I cannot picture using anything else. It is our detrimental sustenance as teachers; we need it to survive in our field and we also need to keep refining it as society changes. I’ve honestly never googled past curriculums but I’d imagine they are not nearly as refined as the one we utilize today, and I can’t imagine one that isn’t as all-encompassing as ours is. What is especially heartwarming is how BC has begun the process of integration of Indigenous ways of knowing and learning into the product given to our youth; it is a well overdue part of reconciliation for our country and provides only benefits to future students. I love how open this curriculum is as well, as instead of giving teachers concrete things to create lessons and units on it simply offers up ideas for which to brainstorm on and make a lot more personal for us and/or our classes.