From Michelle Pidgeon | Reconcili-action at SFU: Provide feedback on the RESPECT project

This message has been sent on behalf of Michelle Pidgeon, associate dean of Indigeneity in the Faculty of Education. It has been sent to all faculty and staff.

Greetings,

As an employee of Simon Fraser University, you are being invited to provide feedback and guidance to the collaborative team of the RESPECT (Reconcili-action – Employee – SFU – Professional development – Education – Cultural – Teachings) project. For more information about the project, please visit the RESPECT website.  

The RESPECT project is responding to the SFU Walk This Path With Us (2017) Calls to Action that speak for all SFU employees to “Develop mandatory intervention programs teaching cultural safety and anti-racism for all employees of SFU, in consultation with the Indigenous Cultural Resource Centre” (p.23).

At this stage of the project development, we are asking SFU employees to provide guidance and feedback into what they feel would be valuable components of a professional development program around the topics of reconcili-action, decolonization, anti-Indigenous racism, and Indigenization. In this anonymous survey (hosted by SFU Survey Monkey), you will be asked questions about curriculum content, learning preferences, and other matters that will help us design this program.

We will be using these survey results to design and shape the learning outcomes, curriculum, and approaches to learning. 

We will be providing a summary of the survey results to members of our RESPECT Advisory Circle, which has representatives from each union, faculty, staff, and students - all of whom are engaged in some way in decolonization, Indigenization, and/or reconciliation. 

This survey will take approximately 15 minutes of your time to complete.

Click here to complete the survey.

Sincerely,

Dr. Michelle Pidgeon on behalf of the RESPECT Advisory Circle
Associate Dean, Indigeneity | Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
Simon Fraser University