NCTR Education Presentations
Announcement:
For September only, our standard education presentations will be replaced by a special 3-part learning series: “Understanding the Residential School System: From Historical Legacy to Ongoing Impacts, Reconciliation, and Resilience.” Due to Truth and Reconciliation Week, Orange Shirt Day, and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, our Education Team has limited capacity for on-demand presentations in September. Our standard presentations are available for booking now through August 2025 and again starting in October. Learn more about our special 3-part learning series, as well as our standard education presentations below.
Special 3-Part Learning Series (September 2025 Only)
Join our special 3-part learning series, “Understanding the Residential School System: From Historical Legacy to Ongoing Impacts, Reconciliation, and Resilience,” offered exclusively in September 2025 via Zoom. Designed primarily for businesses and organizations to educate their staff, this series is open to all for a cost of $1000 per organization. Links for the Zoom sessions will be provided once an organization has secured their spot. Please note, this series will not be recorded and it will not be possible to access a previous session if an organization registers after the series has begun. More details on each session are provided below.
Part 1: The History of the Residential School System
How the system came to be, what the experience was like, and the legal fall-out of the system (the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation).
- Date: September 2, 2025
- Time: 12PM CDT
Part 2: Ongoing Colonial Impacts of the Residential School System
A look at the impacts of the system including intergenerational trauma, the Sixties Scoop, the child welfare system, MMWIG2S+, forced sterilizations, and other systemic injustices such as food and housing shortages, and a look at how healing can begin.
- Date: September 9, 2025
- Time: 12PM CDT
Part 3: Reconciliation and Resilience: Moving Forward Together
What reconciliation can look like through the lens of Indigenous legal rights, allyship, and confronting residential school denialism.
- Date: September 16, 2025
- Time: 12PM CDT
September 2025 Special 3-Part Learning Series Registration
About the NCTR Education Presentations
The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) delivers presentations, workshops, and educational activities upon request — each session is tailored to the audience’s knowledge and interest in topics related to residential schools and the archives.
Whether your audience is just learning about residential schools for the first time or is interested in learning how to engage in social justice action, staff at the NCTR are able to engage the public on a variety of subjects related to our mandate.
Topics and Themes
Common topics requested include:
- Residential school history and residential school experiences
- Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement
- History of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) and the NCTR
- NCTR collection and how to access and work with the archives (including how to conduct primary source document analysis)
- Colonial systems and impacts (60s scoop, day schools, sanatoriums, MMIWG)
- Intergenerational trauma and healing
- Student Memorial Register, missing children, and unmarked burials
- Getting engaged with the Calls to Action and social justice action.
Book a Presentation
To book a presentation, please use the request form below and our team will work with you to create a custom presentation that best meets your needs.
To help inform your decision, you can review and download the [NCTR background and educational training options] pdf. This document includes information on available programming, content, delivery, costs, and sample agendas.
Requests from educators, students, organizations, and the private and public sectors are evaluated by the NCTR education team to determine the appropriate speaker.
Engagement can range in length anywhere from an hour to half-day programs and are available throughout the year.
NCTR’s spirit name – bezhig miigwan, meaning “one feather”.
Bezhig miigwan calls upon us to see each Survivor coming to the NCTR as a single eagle feather and to show those Survivors the same respect and attention an eagle feather deserves. It also teaches we are all in this together — we are all one, connected, and it is vital to work together to achieve reconciliation.