About Me
My name is Lisa Warden. I am an elementary French teacher within the Toronto Catholic District School Board. I am also a Master Candidate for the Professional Master of Education program with Queens University. Over the past several months, I embarked on a journey to educate myself on Indigenous culture and history as well as how to incorporate decolonizing pedagogy in my teaching practices. In the spring of 2021, I decided to take an ABQ course in order to gain an understanding of Indigenous culture and people. While this course was a great introduction to learning about First Nation, Métis and Inuit people and their history, it left me asking more questions than answering the previous ones I had going into the course. Over the summer, I found myself watching many CBC documentaries as well as countless hours googling in order to answer these questions. With the news on the bodies found across our country at residential school sites, I started to feel overwhelmed with my limited knowle...