“The way to preserve a language is to start the lessons at home. And listen to your elders.” Elder Mary Houle When it comes to giving voice to language, Rebecca Chartrand, the President & CEO of Indigenous Strategies has a voice. A very strong voice. Rebecca whose leadership style is based on Indigenous ways of teaching and learning, which orient towards holistic perspectives and contributions strives to ensure” we are all paddling the same canoe towards a common goal.” Rebecca shares her story of how she worked in the Seven Oakes School Division engaging students, parents, teachers, trustees, the superintendents, the administrators to dream, to create a vision of introducing a two-track system. One was an English track, the other was an Ojibwe track. She wanted to allow children to learn about their culture, And working with Elder Mary Kashin, language was to be at the heart of it. Rebecca created 15 Ojibwe bilingual books and the link is captured below. Rebecca wants the reader to know that if you follow the link, the books are free. Rebecca Chartrand is a strong proud Anishinaabe woman. She is game changer. And in this conversation Rebecca openly shares how we can build bridges between Indigenous and Non -Indigenous communities. I will be interested in your views of this local global thinker. https://www.7oaks.org/Resources/indigenouseducation/Pages/Ojibwe-Bilingual-K-4-Book-Series. Follow Rebecca on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ind_strategy A Transcription is forthcoming See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.