congratulations to tesa fiddler, named outstanding indigenous educator

congratulations to tesa fiddler (med, 2012), a teacher with the thunder bay catholic district school board, who was recently named the 2019 outstanding indigenous educator by the canadian teachers’ federation.  

tesa is a member of kitchenuhmaykoosib inninuwug (big trout lake first nation) with family connections to onigaming and muskrat dam first nations. she has worked as an indigenous education resource teacher for the thunder bay catholic district school board since 2011.

from 2011 to 2016, tesa was a co-instructor with dr. lisa korteweg in the course “indigenizing perspectives and practices in education,” at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , among other classes.

she also taught at dennis franklin cromarty high school, oshki-pimache-o-win education institute, and york university.     

pictured below: tesa fiddler, right, received a certificate from ctf president shelley morse after being named the 2019 outstanding indigenous educator by the canadian teacher's federation.