Staff KindergartenDaycare Learning CentreElementary Secondary
The Lake Babine Nation Education Department also congratulates the following students in their achievement for this Term 2:
LDSS TERM TWO HONOUR ROLL
Honour Roll
Grade 8
Chenoa Brown
Alana Crouse
William Robinson
Grade 9
Tanis Bjarnason - Crouse
Phillip Daniels
Grade 11
Lucy Alec
Darien Petit
Grade 12
Julian Lowley
Principal’s List / Straight "G’s"
Grade 8
Desi Baillie
Grade 9
Phillip Daniels
Grade 10
Sterling Erickson
Important Reminder!!
The Lake Babine Nation Education Department is now accepting applications for the September 2010 Fall and 2011 Winter Term.
The Deadline for submitting applications for this academic year are May 15, annually. The application can be downloaded and returned to the office by mail, fax or email. Also, if you do not have access to a printer you can request that a hard copy of the application be mailed to your home address for your convenience. Have a wonderful day and thank you for visiting, if you have any further questions or comments please do not hesistate to call the Lake Babine Nation office in Burns Lake.
The Deadline for submitting applications for this academic year are May 15, annually. The application can be downloaded and returned to the office by mail, fax or email. Also, if you do not have access to a printer you can request that a hard copy of the application be mailed to your home address for your convenience. Have a wonderful day and thank you for visiting, if you have any further questions or comments please do not hesistate to call the Lake Babine Nation office in Burns Lake.
Post Secondary Application Deadline May 15, 2010
Lake Babine Nation Education Department Update: December 2009
Respectfully Submitted by:
Education Director: Monty Palmantier BEd Post Bachelor Diploma (UBC) MEd (SFU), PhD (In Progress, UBC)
Elementary/Secondary Coordinator: Gina Patrick,
Post-Secondary Coordinator: Brenda Michell-Joseph,
Seasons’ Greeting from the Lake Babine Nation Education Department
First of all we want to congratulate all the students on a successful completion of this first term. Keep up the good work! It has been a busy time, I am sure the students can relate to this with exams that you are busy studying for. Best of luck with your exams!
Education Department Planning Session:
On October 23, 2009 the Lake Babine Nation Education team had a follow up planning session at the Heritage Centre, this planning session helped give the team direction and goals for their programs through the LBN Business and Operations Plans.
The Carrier Developmental Standard term Certificate is program that was Developed by LBN, CNC, and UNBC. Monty and Louise Lacerte played a big role in making this program a reality. Lake Babine Nation has 14 students in the program and they have just completed the Certificate portion of their program. We want to send our Congratulations out the ladies:
Georgina Erickson, Kelly Tizya, Cicelia Godfrey, Lucy Fortin, Beatrice Michell, Geraldine Michell, Roberta Alec, Jacqueline Williams, Mary Williams, Barbara Patrick, Rhonda George, Bernadette Lacerte, Francis Brown, and Rosalie MacDonald. Please congratulate them on their accomplishments. These ladies have worked hard and are on their way to be certified Language and Culture teachers. As well some of them will be continuing on to their Bachelor of Education. The ladies had a dinner on December 4th at the Margaret Patrick Community Centre. At this dinner they served traditional food that they prepared as part of their assignment over the summer. They also had to do a speech in Carrier and I must say they did very well some of the ladies did not speak or understand much of the Carrier Language. Louise Lacerte their instructor was very proud of the students. Way to go ladies, keep up the good work! The students will be receiving their diplomas next year.
Post Secondary:
The living allowance will be direct deposited as usual for those students that have accounts set up and those who do not have accounts you will have to wait for the next business day which would be on Monday January 4th, 2009. Reminder that transcripts are due January 15th!
Assembly of First Nations/INAC: Education Authority Renewals
By 2012 there will be changes coming down with funding First Nations receive from Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). This is when the Education Authority Renewal will be taking place. What this means is that the funding INAC for all education program areas needs to be approved and allocated by Treasury Board for another five year period.
In order to have some input into this process our national political organization, Assembly of First Nations, and INAC have put together ‘Expert Working Groups’ in key areas of education that First Nations currently administer including: Elementary/Secondary, Post Secondary, Special Education. In addition, there are two other Working Groups at this level whose task is to address (1) Performance Indicators, and (2) Data Management as they relate to the three program areas. LBN Education Director, Monty Palmantier, has been appointed by the First Nations Education Steering Committee to represent the BC Region on the Experts Group on Post-Secondary Education. This group held its first meeting on November 24 & 25, 2009.
Elementary Secondary:
Room and board cheques for eligible students from Fort Babine will be deposited on Monday, January 4th, 2009 as above if the first falls on a holiday or weekend the cheques are deposited the following business day.
Local Education Agreement between Lake Babine Nation – School District No. 91
The Lake Babine Nation has re-signed a Local Education Agreement for this 2009/2010 academic year: September, 2009 to June, 2010. The Chief and Council has appointed a technical team of Monty Palmantier, Education Director, and Louise Lacerte, Woyenne Councillor to begin working on a new version of the Local Education Agreement – a five year agreement from June, 2010 to June, 2015 with the School District No. 91.
Enhancement Agreement
The School District No. 91 is in the process of developing a new Enhancement Agreement to be signed with the Ministry of Education, as the five year agreement has expired as of June, 2009. This Enhancement Agreement will need input from First Nations communities within the School District No. 91 jurisdiction, including Burns Lake area public schools.
The School District No. 91 will be consulting with the First Nations communities; including Lake Babine Nation via community meetings for input into the new Enhancement Agreement, that will need to be signed by June, 2010. We will be sending out notices to the communities of Woyenne and Tachet (within School District No. 91 boundaries), the dates of the meetings once we receive this from district.
The Lake Babine Nation Education Department also congratulates the following students in their achievement for this Term 1:
William Konkin Elementary School
“At WKE I will…..Value Myself, Value Others, Value This Place”
Academic Honour Roll
Silias Joseph
Michelle Abraham
Elizabeth Micell
Straight G’s
Cassandra Hall
Latoya Charlie
Siias Joseph
Michelle Abraham
Elizabeth Michell
Jonas Lagimodiere
Richelle Gairdner
Alex England
Richelle Gairdner
Alex England
Principal’s List
Michelle Abraham
Elizabeth Michell
Lakes District Secondary School
Honour Roll
Desi Baillie, Grade 8
Chenoa Brown, Grade 8
Alana Crouse, Grade 8
William Robinson, Grade 8
Sterling Erickson, Grade 10
Lucy Alec, Grade 11
Tilesha Charlie, Grade 11
Darien Petit, Grade 11
Philine West, Grade 11
Julian Lowley, Grade 12
Principal’s List/Straight “G’s”
Silas Joseph, Grade 8
Keenan Abraham, Grade 9
Philip Daniels, Grade 9
At the time of printing of this newsletter we had not yet received a list from Muriel Mould Primary School, Decker Lake Elementary School, and Babine Elementary School, for their honour roll list. We wish to congratulate students for their achievements in these schools and to all students for the first part of this school year.
Reciprocal Tuition Agreement
This is the first year of Reciprocal Tuition for reciprocal tuition process for Lake Babine Nation. On December 4, 2009 Chief Adam signed the Reciprocal Tuition Agreement between LBN and the province of BC on behalf of Lake Babine Nation. Reciprocal Tution has been a part of the Education Jurisdiction negotiations that have been going on between First Nations, provincial and federal governments over the past few years, Reciprocal Tuition Agreements have now come into existence. What this means is that if First Nations have any students from off-reserve, including our own members or anyone else, that attend our band controlled K-12 schools – we can now invoice the province for the same block tuition amount that we pay to the school district when our on-reserve students attend public schools.
The Education Director, Monty Palmantier, is on the following committees on behalf of the Lake Babine Nation:
· First Nations Education Steering Committee (Treasurer)
· AFN/INAC Experts Panel on Post Secondary Education (National Working Group)
· Aboriginal Steering Committee – CNC Lakes (Chair)
· First Nations Education Committee-School District#91Nechako
· Aboriginal Education Committee –School District#54 Bulkley Valley
· Post Secondary Institute Development-Burns Lake Native Development Corporation
· Carrier Developmental Standard Term Certificate-UNBC,CNC and LBN initiative
· Indian Support Studies Program (Chair)
Please note that the FNEC SD#91 Meetings are open to anyone that wishes to attend. These meetings are rotated around the communities in the Nechako and Lakes area. LBN hosted the last meeting in November in the Council chambers. The next meeting will be on January 13th at Nadleh Band in Fraser Lake.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact:
Monty Palmantier, Education Director
Gina Patrick, Elementary Secondary Coordinator
Brenda Michell Joseph, Post Secondary Coordinator
Yolanda Spenst, Principal/Teacher Morris Williams Memorial Preschool
Gary Klugie, Principal/Teacher K’ay Skak Learning Centre
Caroline George, Principal/Teacher Ted Williams Memorial Centre
Sonya Mack, Principal Teacher Tachet School
John Forbes, Principal/Teacher Fort Babine School
Mary Williams, Daycare Coordinator
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Post Secondary Education Program
The Lake Babine Nation Post Secondary Program is administered by the Lake Babine Nation. The Education Coordinator Post Secondary Brenda Michell Joseph is available to answer any questions you may have regarding the Policy, application deadline dates. Contact information:
Telephone Number: 250-692-4704
Toll free number 1-800-692-3214
Fax: 250-692-4790
The Post Secondary Policy. downloadform
LBN Post Secondary Application form downloadform
LBN Post Secondary Spring & Summer Request downloadform
Important dates to remember: All applications for funding must be complete and submitted by May 15th annually. Applicants will be notified in writing on the status of their application in early July.
Administration Staff
Monty Palmantier, MaEd. Director of Education monty.palmantier@lakebabine.com
Brenda Michell-Joseph, Education Coordinator brmichell@lakebabine.com
Gina Patrick, Elementary/Secondary Coordinator gina.patrick@lakebabine.com
Neduten Traditional Teaching Series
The project was a success in terms of its implementation and effectiveness on the targeted youths. We targeted youth/students who currently attend the local schools that have been experiencing more absenteeism or below grade levels than others.
Our main objective was to have total immersion of our Traditional ways of teaching young people and having those teachings linked to our language and culture.
Stemming from this project and based on comments made by the youths/students we developed a project for the parents who required some insights and awareness in our community settings. We are also planning and designing workshops for the local school teachers, educators, and MCFD workers about our Traditional ways and means of teaching the young.
In all, this project has made good progress for Lake Babine Nation in terms of establishing a starting point and continuing with set directions for the betterment of all families.
Click here to download the report : Neduten Traditional Teaching Series Report 
Click here to download presentation : Neduten Traditional Teaching Presentation