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Award Winning Author,
Speaker, & Educator

Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing your Practice with a Critical Lens

Carolyn Roberts is a truly remarkable Indigenous author whose voice is both powerful and precise. Her work reflects deep insight, integrity, and a fearless commitment to storytelling that matters. She is not only an exceptional writer, but a trail blazer for Indigenous voices with professionalism, clarity, and purpose. 

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Carolyn Roberts

Carolyn Roberts is awarding winning author, educator, and Faculty Lecturer at UBC Teacher education. Carolyn’s work invites us to slow down, listen deeply, and reconsider stories that shape our classrooms, our relationships and our responsibility to the land and community. She challenges educators to move beyond checklists and towards teaching that is rooted in respect, reciprocity, and truth telling. 

An invaluable resource for educators looking to actively participate in reshaping education to include historically silenced voices in the classroom. 

 

Re-Storying Education  is a process of dismantling old narratives taught in education and rebuilding new narratives that include all the voices that have created this place known as Canada today. This vital and timely book outlines how colonialism has shaped both the country and the public school system. Re-Storying Educationuses an Indigenous lens, offering ways to put Indigenous education, history, and pedagogy into practice. It invites readers into an open dialogue in the pursuit of a more inclusive and just educational landscape.

 

Drawing from her own experiences as an Indigenous student, educator, and administrator, in public and band-operated school systems, Indigenous academic Carolyn Roberts offers a deep understanding of how to support educators with Indigenous education and to create a nurturing and inclusive environment for all students. Re-Storying Education brings wider perspectives, connections to the land and the people of this land, and a deeper understanding of how relationships to these can change the educational experience for all students. 

 

Re-Storying Education contains valuable lesson and assessment ideas, fostering the development of a critical lens in education. Roberts offers questions for self-reflection, suggestions for professional action, recommended resources for further learning, personal stories and anecdotes, insights from her own decolonizing teaching practices, and playlists that reflect the spirit of the work and that uplift Indigenous voices.

 

This is a must-have resource for all educators and change-makers in education today!

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“Woven in these pages is a masterful contribution to the field of education and to those who work in educating hearts, minds, and spirits. I found myself lit up, excited, eager to turn each page, and also inspired to slow down, reflect, and let all the beauty in the pages find their rightful place in my own learning. Carolyn Roberts invites us to go on a journey with her, to be in relationship with her as we learn, unlearn, relearn, and ignite our excitement in the joy of education. Re-Storying Education is full of knowledge, wisdom, truths, and stories and will influence education for generations to come.”

Monique Gray Smith, Award winning and bestselling author 

 

“An excellent resource for navigating often-fraught waters, turning potential struggle into a hopeful journey of discovery and reconciliation.”

Eden Robinson, bestselling author of the Trickster trilogy

 

“Re-Storying Education is a practical guide for how to support educators in decolonizing their practice. Through storytelling, Carolyn Roberts weaves her own personal experiences and learnings into her writing, providing strategies on how to disrupt and (un)learn stereotypical narratives and ‘ways of doing’ about Indigenous Peoples by creating space to Re-Story the present and the future. Each chapter starts with a creative musical playlist to uniquely connect each of the chapters’ learnings and ends with critical reflective questions and a resource list. I highly recommend this important resource for all educators but in particular those teaching in the K–12 system. What a wonderful book!”

Sheila Cote-Meek, PhD, author of Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-Secondary Education

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Tess's Red Dress

Honouring Love and Family

This story is a story of love, the impacts of loss, and the importance of family. Tess is a fictional character that came to me as the lead to tell this story. Through Tess’s eyes she shares her questions, curiosity, and learning about her Aunty that is missing. Tess’s stories are connected to stories of my own children, my sisters, my nieces and their children. I have used my own lived connections to my family to create this moment in time that you are reading today.  

The hopes as you read this story, is to be reminded about the importance of family in Indigenous communities. Family in our community shows us how wealthy we are, we are rich if we have a big family. The loss of any family member makes a drastic change for those left behind and the generations to come. Tess shares with us how she is connected, how she keeps the stories of her family alive and how she will continue on even though she is missing a core member of her family. Tess’s Red Dress brings in the importance of learning about and honouring all missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQ plus. 

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Speaker & Facilitator

Testimonials

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“Always fills my heart and spirit to be present and witness your impactful work Carolyn.”

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“So knowledgeable, well spoken, honest and relevant to what we all need to hear and learn. Powerful!”

 

“Thank you for making the time and space for us on Thursday. You have me thinking a lot about my individual role as an imperfect accomplice but also about larger systematic changes that are necessary. I hope to hear you speak again soon!”

 

“I enjoyed Carolyn Robert's discussion. I found her provocations invited deeper thinking and her resource recommendations to be useful and authentic. She was an inviting and honest Facilitator.”

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Kirkus Reviews

A well-presented consideration of a generations-long problem in education.

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Booklife Review

This impassioned guide serves as a call-to-action for administrators and educators to develop a strong critical lens and actively decolonize the classroom. Written in relatable, inclusive language, Roberts encourages readers to reconnect with one another, the land, waterways, and community.

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Podcast

In which Patrick sits down with Carolyn Roberts to discuss her new book on decolonial education practices and what exactly it means to 're-story' education.

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Podcast

Carolyn Roberts is challenging the colonial foundations of Canada’s education system. As an Indigenous academic and educator, Carolyn has firsthand experience in the classroom. We explore the impacts of colonialism on curriculum, offer practical strategies for creating more inclusive and equitable learning environments, and discuss Carolyn’s new book Re-Storying Education: Decolonizing Your Practice Using a Critical Lens.

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