The Threads of Indigenous Pedagogy: Intentional Practices to Transform Teaching, Learning, and Leading

A guide to weaving Indigenous teaching practices into classrooms and schools every day

In follow-up to her nationally bestselling, award-winning book Re-Storying Education, St’át’imc and Stó:lō scholar and educator Carolyn Roberts offers a heartfelt, richly researched exploration of Indigenous teaching practices that any teacher, administrator, or learner can incorporate into their work. The Threads of Indigenous Pedagogies offers powerful methods to pass on knowledge and create vibrant classrooms where students are actively engaged in their education and make meaningful connections to their learning.

Based on research into the ways Roberts’s Stó:lō and Squamish ancestors passed knowledge across generations, and how she intentionally allowed these teachings to guide her teaching, the book describes nine transformational approaches to decolonize learning spaces. The Threads of Indigenous Pedagogies—reciprocity, belonging, witnessing, doing, ceremony, repetition, story, time, and relationships—can be incorporated into any classroom. Even in subjects such as math and the sciences, you can use these Threads to set up inclusive learning environments. Drawing on her teaching of mandated Indigenous education courses for teacher candidates, Roberts walks you through foundational practices and lessons for centering Indigenous Knowledges in a learning environment that can be applied in the K–12 school system and beyond. The book also addresses how school leadership can support educators to examine colonial assumptions in their teaching practices and ensure Indigenous worldviews are properly represented.

Filled with Indigenous Brilliance and stories from the field, The Threads of Indigenous Pedagogies by Carolyn Roberts offers lessons to transform your teaching practice. Blending expert teaching and inspiring hope for the future, this book is an embodied, integrated, and deeply felt exploration for educators who want to weave diverse knowledge systems into their teaching and show students how learning can happen in multiple ways.