Event Calendar

Siigwan 2025 Education Directors Forum
May 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – May 22, 2025 @ 9:00 pm

📢Siigwan 2025 Education Directors Forum
🗓 May 21-22, 2025
📍 Thunder Bay, ON
For any questions or additional information, please contact Emma-Lea Krakower at 📞 807.625.4643 or 💌 ekrakower@nan.ca.
Presenters & Booths at the NAN Education Forum
We’re excited to welcome an inspiring lineup of presenters and organizations to this year’s Education Forum! Throughout the event, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in meaningful discussions, attend informative sessions, and explore a variety of booths offering resources, tools, and support for educators and communities.
Presentations will include:
- Creating a School Budget using the side-by-side letters provided by ISC
- Community-Led Education Discussions: Sharing top priorities and goals in education
- AI in Education: Presented by White Rabbit EDU
- Project-Based Learning: A virtual presentation from a teacher on how she implemented PBL in her classroom, grounded in Indigenous education approaches and pedagogy
- Mental Wellness: Supporting the emotional wellbeing of students and educators
- Cyberbullying: A presentation from NAPS on online safety
- Opioid Awareness & Naloxone Training
- Oshki-Pimache-O-Win: The Wenjack Education Institute on their language program and accreditation process
- Spirit North: Leading land-based programming with students in community
Visit booths from the following organizations:
- White Rabbit EDU
- Education Jurisdiction
- Education Partnerships and Student Safety
- Spirit North
- Opioid Safety
- NAN Justice
- Indigenous Advanced Education and Skills Council (IAESC)
- NAN Early Years
- Anderson Therapy Services
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
- Plus a local vendor from the area will be joining us!
This is a great opportunity to learn, connect, and gather resources to support your work in education. We can’t wait to see you there!