Education Departmental Goals

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M'Chigeeng First Nation Education has an outstanding team dedicated to providing dynamic education programs for our students. We are continually STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE and we need your support by playing an active tole in helping us to achieve this goal.

M’Chigeeng First Nation encourages individuals to participate in their own social, economic and education advancement. Education is a continuous process and M’Chigeeng First Nation Education program strives to provide the best possible opportunity for every student to reach their education goal.

The MFN Education Department strives to provide the best possible opportunity for every individual in the community by:

  • Providing an education system which will give our children a strong sense of identity and confidence in their personal worth and ability.
  • Enhancing the development of native values through the education system, e.g. generosity, wisdom, self-reliance and respect for the natural environment
  • Ensuring that the education system prepares our members for a meaningful lifestyle in modern society.
  • Encouraging parents, teachers, elders, children and community workers to participate in their own social, economic, political and educational advancement.
  • Keeping the native language as a daily part of our lives.
  • Establishing a educational setting which will encourage respect for spiritual and traditional values.

Looking Ahead

We have and will continue to make a difference. Professional Development and Community Engagement are keys to improving our learning environments. Improving learning environments will impact teaching and learning.

We NEED to be graduating all of our students that are capable of graduating…this number is close to 85% of our student population.

At present, approximately 50% of our students are graduating from secondary school. The national statistic for FN students is a dismal 30% and declining.

Improving our situation must not come from outside our community. The most and lasting important changes will come from within and will draw on the great resources within our community itself. If we want to change and improve the climate and outcomes of schooling, there are features of the school culture that have to be changed. If not, our well-intended efforts will be defeated

The one commodity that we don’t have enough of is time. If we want to realize the potential in our community we must re-think, re-plan, and re-focus how we use the time we have.

It is how we use this time that will separate being good from being great.