Christine M'Lot Bücher

The Teacher Guide for In Search of April Raintree and April Raintree is designed for educators teaching grades 11 and 12, focusing on creating engaging learning experiences around Indigenous topics. Authored by Anishinaabe educator Christine M’Lot and psychologist Dr. Karlee Fellner, it emphasizes a respectful and dignified approach, ensuring that students gain a deeper understanding of the themes and cultural significance within the narratives.

This guide assists educators of grades 9–12 in effectively using Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story in the classroom. It offers lesson planning ideas that incorporate Indigenous pedagogical practices and dynamic learning experiences. Additionally, the guide emphasizes trauma-informed approaches to help students engage with sensitive topics related to the story, ensuring a thoughtful and impactful learning process.

The graphic novel, This Place: 150 Years Retold, includes a variety of historical and contemporary stories that highlight important moments in Indigenous and Canadian history.Written by Anishinaabe educator Christine M'Lot, the Teacher Guide for This Place: 150 Years Retold offers 12 comprehensive lessons that support teachers inintroducing students to the unique demographic, historical, and cultural legacy of Indigenous communities and exploring acts of sovereignty and resiliencyusing circle pedagogy to show the interconnectedness of ideas and topics, primarily in the form of the medicine wheelinfusing Indigenous pedagogical practices, such as working with others, seeking holism in understanding, and learning through storytellingengaging students’ understanding and encouraging them to embrace differing worldviewsNEW! Incorporating the This Place CBC podcast when studying the graphic novelLessons in this teacher guide are appropriate to Grades 9–12 English, Grade 11 Global Issues, and Grade 12 Current Topics in First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies classes. They are also adaptable to relevant university or college courses.