September 22, 2025
This September, we kicked off the school year by celebrating the people who work in Education across the province. We wanted to make sure they realize how much we appreciate all they do for the students. Our staff at MK took some treats to each of the communities, along with some gifts for teachers and EA's as a small token of our appreciation.
Post Secondary
Our Post secondary department had a busy summer offering programming and camps across the province. One of the programs they offered was a 6 week summer student job placement program. As part of the program, Melissa Reid our Adult Education consultant, put a graphic facilitation workshop for the students. The goal of this workshop was to create a shared vision, identity specific goals and timelines , and develop a concrete plan with defined actions and resources.
On July 17, the Post secondary team coordinated an eel skinning workshop at the Jane Paul Centre. Michael R Denny taught the participants about katew and how to skin and prepare them.
Another program coordinated by the Post Secondary team over the summer was the MED/DVS course for Adult learners. This program was offered for 2 weeks in the community of Wagmatcook and the second half was held at NSCC in Port Hawkesbury. Students were required to attend both sessions in order to attain their certificates.
Academic Services
Kyla Bernard our Elementary Numeracy consultant has been busy visiting schools and planning for PD events this year. IXL is up and running again for the new school year and if any teacher needs support to set up rosters Kyla will be happy to help. Licenses are still available and going really quick.
Kyla has updated her math website for grades p to 4 and added some math resources and up to date math calendars for the new school year. Teachers can check it out at http://sites.google.com/kinu.ca/mathematicsp-4hub/home
Kyla had the opportunity to visit some schools across the province. In Potlotek, students were playing fun math games with place value and money. During math class at LSK, students were counting objects different ways and having lots of fun. She also had the opportunity to visit We'koqmaq and Wagmatcook schools and had the best time with students and teachers. It was so nice to see students engage and interact with math and kicking off the 2025 school year with lots of fun activities both indoors and outdoors.
We are kicking off Sprig Explorers math PD for early years, K4 and primary classrooms on on October 8.
Doreen Stevens and Ambrah MacNeil offered an autism and sensory processing PD at ESK immersion school this month. They discussed strategies to support students in the classroom also created some theme based sensory kits that not only provide fun sensory experiences, but can also be integrated into language and curriculum lessons. There were also mini sensory kits provided for each classroom to support student regulation.
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Doreen and Ambrah also delivered Mandt Training to the Eskasoni School Board bus drivers on September 3. Over 20 bus drivers completed the trauma informed training for relationship building.
Mi'kmaw Language and Culture
The Language team offered Waltes training for the Mi'kmaw language Core teachers on September 19 and 20, 2025. The training was delivered by Sugar and Joanne Poulette in Eskasoni Teachers were also given a Waltes kit that was created which included books, postcards, rule book, lesson plan, pet buzzers, and more.
