AM – Carolyn Roberts (Author) Culturally Responsive Pedagogy-(Vanier GYM) Holding Up Indigenous Brilliance, Pedagogies & Epistemologies

Presenter:  Carolyn Roberts – Author/Educator
Location:   G.P. Vanier GYM
Time: 11:00 – 12:15
Author will be doing a book signing!

Culturally responsive pedagogy is more than adding diverse content, it requires a shift in how educators understand knowledge, relationships, and responsibility in the classroom. This workshop explores culturally responsive pedagogy as an approach that centers students’ identities, experiences, and ways of knowing within everyday classroom practice. Participants will engage with key principles that move beyond inclusion toward meaningful, relationship-based practice. Through discussion and practical examples, this session supports educators in developing meaningful practices that honour the communities they serve and strengthen student engagement and success.

** Note: the author will have a book signing for those wishing to purchase one of her books. Bring you credit/debit card.

Carolyn Roberts is a renowned educator, speaker and storyteller with a wealth of experience and expertise in Indigenous education and decolonization. She is a St’at’imc and Sto:lo woman belonging to the Thevarge family from N’quatqua Nation and the Kelly Family from the Tzeachten Nation and a member of the Squamish Nation. Throughout her illustrious career as an educator and administrator for over 20 years, she has consistently demonstrated a passion for supporting Indigenous resurgence through education.

Currently Carolyn holds the position as an Indigenous academic and Faculty Lecturer in the Teacher Education Department of the University of British Columbia. Her dedication to building teachers’ understandings in Indigenous history, education, and ancestral ways of knowing has not only garnered her recognition within education community, but it has also had a positive impact on the decolonizing of the education system.