To assist with your National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day preparations, Facing History & Ourselves is highlighting certain resources and teaching ideas to engage your students in deeper discussions to mark this important day.

• ACTIVITIES: Activities for Engaging Your Community on Orange Shirt Day.
• RECORDED WEBINAR: Deepen your understanding of the gendered impact of colonial policies in this recorded webinar with Dr. Karine Duhamel.
• TEACHING IDEAS: Five Teaching Ideas for Whole School Learning this Orange Shirt Day.
• VIDEO: Indigenous leaders, educators, and scholars discuss what it means to work toward reconciliation in Canada.
• VIDEO: Help students understand the policies that underpinned the Residential School system by watching this video on the Indian Act.

As always, you are encouraged to approach discussions and activities regarding these issues in a culturally safe, trauma aware, identity-affirming way.