CDE Field Trips - 9/30/24: Indigenous Empowerment and Resilience Training

 

 

 

CDE and the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs partnered to bring representatives from the National Indian Education Association to deliver an Indigenous Empowerment and Resilience Training. This unique training is a participatory history lesson developed in collaboration with Indigenous Elders, knowledge keepers and educators that foster truth, understanding, respect and reconciliation among Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples. This training is also known as the Blanket Exercise to support educators statewide with a deeper understanding of how historical trauma impacts the Indigenous families and students we serve today. The training was hosted by Fountain Ft. Carson School District 8.