Bulletin from the President

Dear Customs Members,

​It is my pleasure to share with you some exciting training opportunities that nosotros take available for you lot here at Kenjgewin Teg.  Kenjgewin Teg welcomes all students who are set up to pursue their academic goals while gaining a greater agreement of the Mnidoo Mnising Anishinabek. Our Anishinabek worldview volition be a part of non merely our teaching model just too in our learning systems.
Over the last 12 months, Kenjgewin Teg has carefully planned many different grooming pathways for yous.  We want yous to know that equally a potential student, at that place are diverse east-courses, modules, and programs that can assist you get 1 pace closer to getting the education you ready out to do, for your hereafter.  We have courses and programs in the following areas:

  • Secondary School Courses and Diploma
  • Maawndoo Kinoomaagasiwin/Literacy and Bones Skills
  • Academic Upgrading
  • On-line Courses, Pre-Employment Readiness Access
  • College Programs
  • University Programs
  • Trades Centre
  • Additional Qualifications Courses
  • Anishinabe Aaadizwin

It has been said by leaders in educational activity in Ontario, that whatsoever student who seeks advanced and college pedagogy will exist able to access it without financial barriers.  With the various funding options bachelor to students ranging from sponsorship, OSAP, awards, and bursaries, our team of counsellors will do our best to work with you to reach your pathway.
At Kenjgewin Teg we are a community-based site that cultivates small-scale class sizes and private attention to your learning success.  Nosotros value Anishinabe Aadziwin learnings that will be embedded throughout the plan and learning environs.  We volition support your personal, spiritual and emotional health while you attend Kenjgewin Teg.
We are located here in Yard'Chigeeng, centrally located on Manitoulin Island.  Delight come in and run into our Post Secondary and Adult Teaching Training team.  Nosotros would be excited to help you lot enroll in ane of our many courses or programs of study. Your time to come awaits you!

Yours in education,

Stephanie Roy, Ph.D. (ABD)
President

Stephanie Roy, President
Anna Marie Abitong, Board Chairperson

Message from the Chairperson

Dearest Communities,

Equally the chairperson of the Lath, I am always proud of the dedication of the staff who work on behalf of our learners so diligently and are committed 110%. As a Board, we salute the staff who continually show u.s. what a team tin do when they piece of work together for the betterment of our students and communities.
The area of quality assurance continues to be the focus of the Board of Directors; governance, policies and financial management through standard operating procedures and computerized systems. Nosotros have highly skilled staff and nosotros will proceed to hire Anishinabek staff who are skilled and knowledgeable in carrying out the Kenjgewin Teg framework.
The programs and services will continue to evolve and change as we movement forward in education and grooming. Nonetheless, Kenjgewin will keep to thrive and focus on areas that have been identified in the strategic plan. Kenjgewin Teg has charted a path that volition no doubt continue to play an integral role in advancing Anishinabek pedagogy and preparation.
On behalf of the Board of Directors, I commend the students and staff who make Kenjgewin Teg an inspiring identify of learning.

Yours in teaching,

Anna Marie Abitong, Lath Chairperson

Our Vision, Mission and Values

*NEW* Strategic Plan

We are excited to have completed our 2021-2026 Strategic Plan

Organizational Structure – Nosotros're Growing!

An updated organizational chart was approved by the Board of Directors on April fifteen, 2021.  Moving forrard, and in alignment with organizational accreditation with the Ethnic Advanced Education Council, the structure of Kenjgewin Teg will have three divisions:  Lifelong Learning, Anishinaabe Aadziwin and Corporate Services.  The senior team of Kenjgewin Teg has worked extensively over the last 24 months for planned growth of the organization and its organizational structure; this growth and planning of Kenjgewin Teg is being done as i of 9 Indigenous Institutes forming the new Ethnic training colonnade in Ontario's post-secondary landscape.

Philosophies

As an Ontario accredited Anishinabek post-secondary place of learning by the Indigenous Avant-garde Education and Skills Quango, there are foundational organizational philosophies that guide and support Kenjgewin Teg's implementation of its long-term vision. Recognition of the history and ongoing relationship between Canada and Indigenous Nations, its impact on lifelong learning pedagogy outcomes, Anishinabek means of life, and the significance of the Ojibwe language collectively represent Kenjgewin Teg's style frontwards and our commitment to learners.

Annual Reports

Financial Statements

Partners and Networks

Kenjgewin Teg has many partnerships contributing to strategic goals and objectives in lifelong learning. While not all partners are non listed below, the following are highlights of key post-secondary partnerships:

College Partners

Academy Partners

Post-Secondary Sector Memberships

Lifelong Learning: Current Special Project Partners

Maamwi Naadamaadaa Partner Organizations (Mnidoo Mnising)

Well-nigh Mnidoo Mnising

Outdoor Wooden Eagle

Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Isle) is known past the Anishinabek people to be a special and sacred place. In its history, the Iii Fires Confederacy is a longstanding political and military alliance consisting of the Ojibwa, Odawa and Potawatomi. This alliance remains in place today with many Anishinabek communities comprised of Three Fires Peoples such as those on Mnidoo Mnising and the north shore of Lake Huron, down to Walpole Island in southwestern Ontario.

Elders and Knowledge Keepers of Anishinabek Traditional Noesis tin be found on Mnidoo Mnising as well as many other parts of what is now known as Canada and the United States. The Anishinabek Migration Story shares Anishinabek history, origins, and how Mnidoo Mnising was the fourth of 7 stopping places in the Anishinabek Migration Story.

As colonization of Indigenous peoples began because of Canada'south formal policies in the 1800'southward, impacts have and continue to be felt by the Anishinabek people of Mnidoo Mnising. Many children were sent to the Spanish Residential Schools which operated between 1913 and 1965 under Canada's Indian Residential Schoolhouse policy. In colonization, Treaties are likewise a part of Mnidoo Mnising's history: the Manitoulin Treaty of 1836 (Bail Caput); the 1836 Manitoulin Treaty; and the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 which is now in litigation status.

Despite an oppressive history, the resiliency of the Anishinabek people remains. There are many community leaders, organizations and people who are members of Mnidoo Mnising communities who go on to remain true to their Anishinabek values and identity. The tribal quango providing political advocacy for several Kickoff Nation communities located on Mnidoo Mnising is the United Chiefs and Quango of Mnidoo Mnising. Amongst other significant achievements, such as creating many multi-sector organizations (which includes Kenjgewin Teg) mandated to serve Mnidoo Mnising communities, past the year 2030, the Council has stated that any person, Indigenous or non-Indigenous (Anishinabek or non-Anishinabek), who works in the Anishinabek Territory of Mnidoo Mnising will need to take some control of the Ojibwe Language, Anishinabemowin.  Anishinabek education sovereignty plays a central role in teaching and learning Anishinabek children, adults, and lifelong learners from all backgrounds and multifariousness  – and this is a part which Kenjgewin Teg, as one of many places of learning on Mnidoo Mnising, holds with great respect and humility. Mnidoo Mnising's history, cultural and spiritual significance to the Anishinabek people play an important role of Kenjgewin Teg'due south lifelong learning programs and services.

Geographically, Mnidoo Mnising is known as the world'due south largest freshwater Island. It has more than a hundred inland lakes between its shores, and many of those lakes have islands. There are more two dozen small-scale settlements, Starting time Nations and small towns spread out beyond more than than 160 kilometers of boreal woods, lakes, rivers, shorelines, escarpments, and meadows. Manitoulin Island (known every bit Mnidoo Mnising to the Anishinabek people) is currently a popular tourism destination attracting visitors from effectually the world.

Our History

Our By

In April 1994, two organizations merged on Manitoulin Island: the Waubetek Grooming Institute and Nda-Gkenjge-Gamig Educational Institute creating what is now known every bit Kenjgewin Teg. Kenjgewin Teg originated every bit an incorporated non-turn a profit system in Ontario with formal membership of six First Nation communities: Aundeck Omni Kaning (formerly known equally Ojibways of Sucker Creek), M'Chigeeng First Nation (formerly known every bit W Bay Offset Nation), Sagamok Anishnawbek, Sheguiandah First Nation, Sheshegwaning Showtime Nation, Whitefish River First Nation, and Zhiibaahaasing Start Nation.

Kenjgewin Teg's mandate in the 1990'due south was asserted as supporting its member First Nations in delivering quality, comprehensive educational services, providing second level services not bachelor at that time, deliver programs and promote professional evolution, and encourage public didactics fostering agreement through cultural exchange with other groups.

Team cheer while joining lacrosse sticks
Kenjgewin Teg graduation ceremony

Our Present

Afterward 20+ years in providing its original mandated services in Starting time Nation education, education transformation legislation and new policy from Canada (federal authorities) has afflicted Kenjgewin Teg's office in providing its originally mandated second level services to its First Nation communities. During this federal policy alter affecting Showtime Nations simple and secondary teaching, changes accept as well occurred within Ontario's post-secondary sector too.

In 2017, the Indigenous Institutes Act recognized 9 Indigenous Institutes in Ontario (which includes Kenjgewin Teg) as the province's third pillar inside its post-secondary system. The Indigenous Institutes Act, 2017 farther creates a parallel quality assurance organization and related quality balls processes for 9 Indigenous Institutes in Ontario, which includes Kenjgewin Teg. The significance of a provincial quality balls process is that Kenjgewin Teg may presently begin accrediting (developing and delivering) its own diplomas, certificates and degrees for post-secondary students. In 2020, Kenjgewin Teg initiated the first footstep of a required organizational review before information technology can submit new programs for accreditation to the Indigenous Advanced Teaching and Skills Council. Kenjgewin Teg anticipates full accreditation in 2021.

Kenjgewin Teg continues its origins as an incorporated non-profit arrangement in Ontario currently with formal membership of 8 Get-go Nation communities: Aundeck Omni Kaning, Constance Lake First Nation, G'Chigeeng Starting time Nation, Sagamok Anishnawbek, Sheguiandah First Nation, Sheshegwaning First Nation, Whitefish River First Nation, and Zhiibaahaasing Showtime Nation.

Our Future

Kenjgewin Teg will continue to grow and emerge as a leader and place of learning excellence within Ontario, nationally and internationally. Kenjgewin Teg will grow, build capacity and aggrandize its presence equally a leader in teaching and learning innovation in Anishinabek (Ethnic) educational activity programs and services. Located on beautiful Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island in Northern Ontario), the history of our land, ancestors, stories and traditional teachings volition continue to guide Kenjgewin Teg in its future – a future where Anishinabek linguistic communication (Anishinabemowin), civilisation and tradition become a office of every pupil'due south identity that they will share with the earth.

Kenjgewin Teg officials at a groundbreaking ceremony