About
About maskêkosak kiskinomâtowikamik
Nurturing kind hearts, inquiring minds, strong spirits and lifelong learning.
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nêhiyaw pimâtisôwin Goals
Along with our unique learning environment, we have focused goals. These goals extend to our community and beyond.
- Ongoing guidance and support from maskêkosihk kehtêayak.
- Reclaiming our maskêkosihk heritage and principled ways of knowing
- The creation of fluent nêhiyaw language speakers
- Continuous academic improvement and success for all students
- Learners who demonstrate a clear understanding of maskêkosihk nêhiyawak Foundational Principles
- Quality learning that exceeds regional, provincial and national standards
- The school as the heart of the community
Mission Statement
Maskêkosihk kiskinomâtowikamik is committed to lifelong learning, nehiyawew pimatisowin, for all students, staff, and community members, to ensure the continuity of nehiyawewin for generations to come—for as long as the sun shines, the grass grows, and the rivers flow.
By working together as students, staff, and community, we will uphold the Cree Language Declaration and strive to revive nehiyawewin and our cultural practices.
Bridging the knowledge between youth and kêhtê-ayak ekwa okiskinohamâkew (Elders and Knowledge Keepers) is paramount to honouring the traditional ways of the nehiyawak. Our work is rooted in cultural resurgence, ensuring that nehiyawewin is deeply connected to Traditional Cree Knowledge, values, and practices.
Maskêkosihk kiskinomâtowikamik acknowledges wahkotamowin (connections) in our Nation through our ancestral connection to nikâwinân askiy (my mother’s land), the elements, the living environment, and the people of our Nation.
We strive to honour the legacy of ancestral knowledge that resides in our blood memory and is carried by our kêhtê-ayak ekwa okiskinohamâkew by embodying and reclaiming our Nation’s ancestral name: Maskêkosihk, “The Land of the Medicines.”
Vision Statement
To create a strong foundation for the school community of Maskêkosihk kiskinomâtowikamik to learn maskekosihk nehiyawewin
and nehiyaw pimatisiwin.
Values
As a school community we are setting clear learning goals to ensure student progress and achievement. We are also working towards blending lessons of history, the land and language and other maskêkosihk nêhiyaw ways of learning about the world, with Western educational approaches.
nêhiyaw pimâtisôwin GOALS
Along with our unique learning environment, we have focused goals. These goals extend to our community and beyond.
- Ongoing guidance and support from maskêkosihk kehtêayak.
- Reclaiming our maskêkosihk heritage and principled ways of knowing
- The creation of fluent nêhiyaw language speakers
- Continuous academic improvement and success for all students
- Learners who demonstrate a clear understanding of maskêkosihk nêhiyawak Foundational Principles
- Quality learning that exceeds regional, provincial and national standards
- The school as the heart of the community
“The ability of a group of people to do remarkable things hinges on how well those people pull together as a team.”
Simon Sinek • Leaders Eat Last
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