Beginning in September 2025, the Indigenous Learning Pathways (ILP) team is collaborating with project partners around UBC to host a number of engagement events, which will support learners to more deeply engage in course content, complete various ILP course requirements, and connect with colleagues across UBC. 

The first event is an in-person screening of c̓əsnaʔəm: the city before the city on September 23rd. Engagement events are open to registered ILP learners, so be sure to enroll in ILP now to secure your spot. 

The Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) team at CTLT is excited to welcome you to Building Capacity—Networking and Resource Sharing for IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community, a networking, wellness, and educational space offered to the IBPOC identifying teaching and learning community during the CTLT Summer Institute. This is an intentional space to connect IBPOC faculty, students, and staff across the University, to cultivate kinship, community care, and support. While we recognize the variety of spaces, collectivities and modes of organizing across the IBPOC communities as UBC, this event is designed to cultivate an open space of connection and solidarity-building across affinity groups. Acknowledging that connection is foundational to anti-racist teaching and learning, this session is for new and returning IBPOC educators at UBC to connect and share teaching, learning and wellness resources and ideas in a mutually supportive space.

Date: August 22, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am
Location: Room 2.22, IKBLC

The CTLT Indigenous Initiatives team will be hosting this session to welcome everyone back for the upcoming academic year. Please join us to learn about UBC specific teaching and learning place-based resources that support students and classroom climate. Participants will have the opportunity to network with other members of the UBC teaching and learning community who are interested in learning more about classroom climate and engaging with Indigenous content in a post-secondary environment. 

Date: September 17, 2025
Time: 10:00am - 11:30am
Location: Room 2.22, IKBLC

The Indigenous Initiatives Design Series (II-Design Series) is a 3-part workshop for instructors and members of the UBC teaching and learning community who come to Indigenous topics with varying levels of knowledge and expertise. Throughout the series, participants will be guided to share practices, re-think and redesign elements of their teaching practices, model and explore educational materials, and reframe common learning scenarios through classroom climate principles.

The II Design Series may be of particular interest to faculty and staff who are engaging with the Strategic Plan (ISP), as it lays the groundwork for important conversations around place-based pedagogies, classroom climate, positionality, as well as introduce foundational concepts related to decolonization efforts within teaching and learning contexts. The Design Series is currently offered as an interactive model, combining synchronous and asynchronous activities and peer-to-peer designed discussions.

Dates: October 28, October 30, November 4
Time: 9:30am - 12:30pm
Location:

The Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the Classroom program is a cohort-based program where educators will explore anti-racist approaches and practices to teaching and learning. In this installation of AA-RPC programming, we will ground our conversations within the body of work of cultural humility and culturally sustaining pedagogies, with a focus on building teaching and learning practices that grapple with the often messy yet realistic intersections and nuance of cultural strength and trauma in the classroom.

In this program, participants will critically examine the principles of trauma informed teaching, transformative justice, and abolitionist education and translate theory into concrete teaching and learning strategies that disrupt systemic inequities by supporting and elevating the languages, literacies, and cultural practices of students and communities of colour.

Dates: October 7, 14, 21
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Room 2.22, IKBLC

We welcome you to attend one of CTLT Indigenous Initiatives‘ monthly Virtual Coffee Hours. They are an informal space to connect with consultants on the team and other colleagues across the university. Some common topics that come up include:  

• Professional development plans for individuals, teams, and departments  
• Engaging with the Indigenous Strategic Plan
• Fostering a respectful classroom and campus climate
• Connecting with a network of people across the university
• Locating relevant resources
• Meaningful land acknowledgements

…and more!

Upcoming Dates: 

• August 27, 2025
• September 10, 2025
• September 25, 2025

This section of the newsletter is a space for intersectional Anti-Racist Teaching and learning (A-RTL) program reflections, community care commemorations, and updates.  

A new semester is almost upon us, which can invite reflections on the kind of campus community and connections we want to cultivate. August also offers us days of significance and remembrance that invite reflection on nuanced and intersection histories of oppression, cultural care, and strength across global Black and Indigenous communities: Emancipation Day, International Day of World’s Indigenous People, International Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition, and International Day of People of African Descent. With this in mind, we’ve been reflecting on the diversity of ways that racial solidarity can be stimulated through deep self-reflection and action rooted in the principles of reconciliation, reparation, and emancipation. Check out our blog post to read more: Continue Reading 

What's Coming Up for A-RTL:  

• Register for our Summer Institute Session: Building Capacity—Networking and Resource Sharing for IBPOC Teaching and Learning Community.
• Interested in developing your Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Toolbox? Apply to join our Applying Anti-Racist Pedagogies in the Classroom (AA-RPC) Cohort this Fall: Apply to Join the AARPC Cohort!
• Coffee, Tea, Snacks on Us? We want to know what you’d like to see from A-RTL this upcoming year! Fill out this survey and tell us your thoughts for a chance to win a $20.00 gift card to Loafe: Access the A-RTL Survey Here! 

Experience an inspiring afternoon of culture, creativity, and connection in the heart of downtown Vancouver. This FREE community event invites visitors of all ages to celebrate the richness of Indigenous Northwest Coast art and storytelling.

Date: August 23, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: Bill Reid Gallery, 639 Hornby Street

In this event, we are excited and honoured to welcome Dr. David Suzuki and Dr. Shane Pointe, who will share their perspectives and experiences on our changing climate. In this era of truth-telling and reckoning with the past, we need one another to spark an urgent call for change—to reset our relationship with Mother Earth and the sacred, finite resources we all share.

Date: September 23, 2025
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: UBC Alumni Centre, 6163 University Boulevard

Kids and families will be inspired by this engaging and hands-on workshop with Powwow Dancer Nyla Bedard of the Tahltan Nation. Learn about the Jingle Dance, explore the meaning behind the regalia and enjoy live dance snippets performed by Nyla. Come ready to move, connect and take part in this vibrant cultural experience.

Date: September 27, 2025
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Fraserview Branch, 1950 Argyle Drive

Xwi7xwa Library has a display in Irving K. Barber! Our theme this year is Visiting. Our Information Services Librarian, Karleen, came up with the idea of exploring what it means to visit through our collection. We often think of things written down in books as static, concrete data; it’s easy to decontextualize the information, and to feel like the information in books is so far removed from us and our lived experiences. But you can discover and rediscover, connect and reconnect, and visit with so much about yourself, your ancestors, your community, and your surroundings through books! 

We love sharing information about our lovely branch, so we welcome groups, classes, and tours to come check us out and chat about what we can offer you! To make your visit to our branch the absolute best it can be, make sure to fill out a request form to make an appointment with us.  

We want your experience to be the best it can be. Even if it is an informal visit, let us know when you’re coming and how many people to expect so that your time at Xwi7xwa Library can be fruitful!