Welcome to Our Cultural Landscape, Sealaska Heritage’s ninth culturally responsive education conference. This event provides educators and administrators with a deep understanding of culturally responsive education and equips them to transform their classrooms, pedagogy, and curriculum to fully support all students’ success—especially those who have been historically underserved, disenfranchised, and marginalized by colonized systems.

Educators, administrators, university faculty, and community members are all welcome and encouraged to attend. Attendees will find engaging and informative sessions to support their thinking around culturally-responsive and sustaining pedagogies for K–12 and university settings, critical theory, place-based education, and possibilities for indigenizing curriculum and building safe social environments for all learners.

The conference is scheduled August 4-6, and will be offered in person in Downtown Juneau, Alaska, with featured elements available virtually. The theme of this year’s event is Learning from Our Ancestors, Shaping Our Future.

The overarching objective of the conference is to serve as an uplifting, welcoming space for participants to explore learning about and contributing to academic and professional discourses essential to the generation of knowledge and the progress of Native arts, culture and languages. As one among a growing constellation of SHI activities focused on perpetuating and enhancing Southeast Alaska cultures, the conference aims to foster an animated conversation among diverse participants about “integration of Indigenous culture, values and knowledge into public policy, institutions and programs serving Alaska Natives to sustain the cultural vitality of current and future generations.”

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