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Wednesday November 18 2015 7 EDUCATION LANGUAGE On November 23 2015 ELECT LOUIS SEBERT MLA Thebacha Authorized by Patti Haaima Official Agent for Louis Sebert 867 872-0908 Contact Information Website www.louissebert.com Email lsebertnorthwestel.net Phone 867 872-2199 Office Cell 867 688-7703 Campaign Headquarters McDougal Center Record of Community Service Town Councillor for 14 years and Deputy Mayor for six years Past President of Fort Smith Chamber of Commerce Practising lawyer in Fort Smith for 31 years and Treasurer of the NWT Law Society for two years Served on the Board of Directors of NWT Power Corp. for seven years Instructor at Aurora College for 30 years Served as a NWT Human Rights Adjudicator for the past three years Supporter of Amnesty International for 25 years Member and later Chair of the Legal Services Board of the NWT from 2009 to 2015 Former member of the Fort Smith District Education Authority I look forward to bringing this experience to benefit this community in the Legislature of the NWT. Thank you for your support. Time for Change By DALI CARMICHAEL Liz Aapack Fowler may not be the most well-known educator in the North but her work has certainly inuenced many - if not all - students who have passed through edu- cation systems in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. For her efforts in the classroom and her contributions to curriculum development Fowler was honoured at the 2015 Guiding the Journey Indigenous Educator Awards for Culture Language and Traditions by Indspire an organization which recognizes and celebrates outstanding educators for their achievement and innovation in In- digenous education. On Nov. 13 the orga- nization held its annual gala and handed out the awards. Im very honoured Fowler said. I think that the category that I was nominated for is very honourable and certainly Im very pleased about it and humbled. Born and raised in Iglulik Nunavut Fowler said she was quite privileged to grow up with her extensive family where she was im- mersed in her language and culture. We had very few people in my little town my little community and everybody knew everybody and there was no English spo- ken she said. We were very independent and took care of each other and hunted from the land and the sea so my first in- troduction to learning was from every- body. Everybody had something to offer. When she started her teaching career in 1974 in Iglulik she was one of the rst Inuit teachers in the eastern Arctic and used her traditional language of Inuktitut in the classroom. She soon became an In- uktitut program specialist at the Teaching and Learning Centre in Iqaluit eventually taking on a role as the culture-based educa- tion curriculum coordinator at the Depart- ment of Education Culture and Employment in Yellowknife. In 1995 she left her teaching career to open a consulting business and one year later she coordinated the development of Inuuqatigiit The Curriculum from the Inuit Perspective a document which revolutionized culture and language teaching and became the basis for curriculum development in the newly cre- ated territory of Nunavut. It is still used in both Nunavut and the NWT today. One of Fowlers most recent projects was of particular importance to her. Participating in the development of the Grade 10 residential school resource which came out as a collaboration between NWT and Nunavut was fundamentally impor- tant Fowler said. It was something that is so necessary for the two territories. Culture language and worldview While completing her work Fowler always aims to view her subject matter through mul- tiple worldviews. Withineverylinguisticculturetherearesome deepvaluesthatcansurpassanylanguageany culture Fowler said. I think those are funda- mental in passing on and they are values that have sustained human kind throughout eons and those are things that I grew up with and theyreinsomeoftheresourcesIhelpeddevelop. This is a lesson that Fowler has stressed to her contemporaries said Mindy Willett a former consultant who has worked with her on and off for 15 years. When we worked together on the last two projects Liz and would I write together but si- multaneously.ShewritesinInuktitutandIwrite inEnglishWillettsaid.OneofthethingsIve learnedfromLizisthattranslationsdontwork we need to work in more than one language at atimeandthatwayeventhoughinEnglishwe oftenhopetoachievewritingfromanIndigenous perspective unless you actually take the time and think about it in the Indigenous language youre not going to get it right. Those same values that inuence a persons worldview can also help steer them towards success - however they dene it - Fowler said. Toyoungpeople-theworldisbigitssowon- derfulandIthinkthatifyouhaveagoodstrong foundationoffamilyvaluescommunityvalues or whatever you want to call it I think that can sustain you anywhere and go anywhere and I think that that is valuable in itself. NWT traditional teacher honoured with educators award PhotocourtesyofIndspire Liz Aapack Fowler received an Indigenous educator award for her work with language.