The Liber Institute guides school leaders towards sustainable and transformational change by building leaders across the school community. No matter where the school leader needs to pivot, there will be a team ready to lead.

Why We Exist

  • Education decisions are often made without the input of Indigenous communities.

  • Mainstream curricula does not affirm Indigenous history and culture.

  • Teachers and school leaders are ill-prepared to meet students’ unique learning needs.

We aim to increase on-time High-School graduation and college enrollment rates in Indigenous communities, with an emphasis on the 46,000+ Indigenous learners served in Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools.

Is it any surprise that Indigenous students struggle with some of the worst academic outcomes of any demographic group?

*Learn more about this here.

We do not work in isolation. We work in, and alongside the communities we serve.

The Liber Institute’s Cangleska, or Circle, builds the leadership capacity of teachers and principals to partner with learners and families in redesigning the cultural and instructional practices of schools.

 The Bored of Ed Podcast

In the lastest episode of the Bored of Ed, we take a trip down memory lane to revisit some of our Leaders’ Greatest Hits! Jonathan and Doc share the Bored of Ed’s origin story and then touch upon some major points of pain, healing, and hope - which is very necessary if we’re ever going to build the equitable society of our collective dreams!

Podcast available, here.

Stories

  • Coffee Shop

    One of my goals, when I was a teacher, was to have like, a little spot that would be like part of a stage. I would have like pallets and maybe like, put down like a, like a blanket and then have it be with like a chair.

    Our whole classroom would transform into a coffee shop with nibblies, cocoa and tea, and we would put up a sign so we were no longer in a classroom.

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  • 11 + 0

    I got to support a first grader in understanding that eleven plus zero equals eleven. He kept writing that it equals zero.

    So we used these little cubes and I showed him by drawing on the desk, explaining what it means, when you're combining this quantity with this quantity when you're doing addition.

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