Over 40 educators representing 14 states, two provinces and the Yukon territory participated in a 5-part series on current issues in the Arctic. Each week members of our UW Arctic studies community and other colleagues presented on a major theme in Arctic studies. These included “Inuit Homelands and Arctic Indigenous Peoples,” “Ice as Alive and

Kyla Sweet, K-12 education and curriculum specialist for the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University, and colleagues from the other federally-funded National Resource Center on Canada participated in the annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference. Like so many things this year, the NCSS 2020 conference was “unprecedented” and virtual. Originally

In early September, Study Canada K-12 hosted an event called “The Indigenous land you live on: going beyond land acknowledgements”. Christine McRae, executive director of Native Land Digital held a conversation centered around Native-Land.ca, a website and app that allow users to enter their location and reveal the Indigenous territories upon which they stand. The

Twenty French educators from across the state enjoyed an all-day workshop on Québec, in French, from l’Université Laval’s director of language programs. The Canadian Studies Center, in partnership with UW’s Department of French and Italian Studies, Language Learning Center, UW in the High School and the Government of Québec, provided the all-day workshop “Le Québec,

STUDY CANADA K-12 was well represented at the Austin, Texas National Council for Social Studies annual conference last November by our Education and Curriculum Specialist, Kyla Sweet (Western Washington University). From November 21 to 23, 2019, thousands of social studies educators gathered for the 99th National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference. The Pacific Northwest

By Kyla Sweet, education and curriculum K–12 specialist for the Pacific Northwest National Resource Center on Canada This July, twenty educators from across the United States met in Bellingham, WA for the Study Canada Summer Institute 2019 to experience transboundary learning along the Tribal Canoe Journey, which this year was hosted by the Lummi Nation.

By Paulette Thompson What’s problematic about calling Viola Desmond “the Rosa Parks of Canada”? And why don’t more Americans know more about civil rights struggles in Canada? On Friday, March 1, 2019, during the three-day spring social studies leadership K–16 conference held in Chelan, Washington, put on by the Washington State Council for the Social

Not every teacher training program requires that students “must have valid passport,” but travel and experiential learning is what makes the K-12 STUDY CANADA Summer Institute so unique. At the end of June, fifteen teachers from Washington State, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Mexico met at the Center for Canadian-American Studies, at Western Washington University (our

Each day for the past six weeks, my classroom has come to life during my early morning literacy block, my 4th graders buzzing with excitement over our study of Inuit people of the Canadian Arctic. This winter my students were tasked with researching topics and teaching each other about how early Inuit people met their

Kyla Sweet is the new Education and Curriculum K–12 Specialist for the Pacific Northwest National Resource Center on Canada (joining the Canadian Studies centers at UW and Western Washington University). Kyla, who is bilingual, grew up in Alberta and spent a number of years in Vancouver. After marrying an American, at a wedding complete with