Decolonizing Educational Practices

Facilitators: Lee Beavington and Tanya Burnstad

Are you interested in decolonizing your classroom? Do you have experience with decolonial education practices? Want to be inspired by what your colleagues are doing? Join our Community of Practice for a chance to learn and discuss territorial acknowledgements, place-based learning, authentic assessment, Indigenous ways of understanding, and more.

Open to faculty, staff and students. Join a team of passionate educators and students for this supportive and experiential Community of Practice.

As part of this Community of Practice, we will engage with the Decolonizing Educational Practices website that launched in spring 2025.

Supported by the Office of the Provost, KPU Wild Spaces, The Teaching and Learning Commons, and The Learning Centres.

Meeting dates

• Thurs, Oct 30, 2025, 12:00-1:00PM, online (Zoom): Agreements/guidelines for our Community of Practice. Introductions. What is decolonization?
• Tues, Nov 18, 2025, 12:00-1:00PM, KPU Surrey campus (outside, weather permitting): Learning on, from and with the land. Nature as co-teacher and reciprocity.
• Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 12:00-1:00PM, online (Zoom): Truth and intentionality. What are we bringing to this work? How can it connect to our own disciplines and/or practices?

We plan to have more sessions in 2026, as co-created by participants.

How to join

If you are interested in joining, please email lee.beavington@kpu.ca. (Students are welcome to join as well.)

*Image at top of page is Indigenous artwork at KPU Langley created by Brandon Gabriel.