​Terry Craig and Cheryl Treptow, along with a team of NWSD educators, completed a research project with funding from the McDowell Foundation. The research and analysis were completed and presented last school year, and the final work is now published.

We are so proud of the people across our division who helped make this project a success

The project - Improving Indigenous Students’ Success Through an Analysis and Implementation of Promising Teaching Practices - outlines the journey of a diverse team of culturally responsive lead learners within a rural school system in Saskatchewan as they attempted to identify perceived barriers to Indigenous student success while designing a framework that endeavoured to align promising practices and initiatives to better support educators.

View the full research report here:

Improving Indigenous Students' Success

This project could not have happened without many key people. We gratefully acknowledge the support of our local Elders/Knowledge Keepers, board of education, director of education, school community councils, Meadow Lake Tribal Council partners, Northwest School Division Reconciliation Team, FNMI Lead Learners and the Dr. Stirling McDowell Foundation. Without these combined efforts, this work would not have been possible.