ESUMA School Perseverance Podcast

About ESUMA School Perseverance Podcast

Welcome to the ESUMA School Perseverance Podcast. This year, ESUMA is bringing to you a series of podcast episodes around the topic of school perseverance. On these episodes, you will hear stories, testimonials and experiences coming from school staff, teachers, leaders, students, and community members from Nunavik. This season, you will hear the voices of Vicky Tukkiapik, Kayla Meeko, Aida Kooneeliusie, Tommy Palliser, Nicolas Alasuak, Sarah Samisack and many more. Our guests discuss healthy lifestyles, their education journey, family life, and share their insights, tips, and tricks on how the community as a whole can contribute towards school perseverance. Make sure to follow ESUMA on Facebook, where the podcast episodes will be shared. Are you excited to hear this podcast series ? Developed exclusively for you to enjoy, you will now hear a song titled Sapilirnak, written by Charlie Taqqik, Centre Director in Salluit, produced and sung by Kathy Aputiarjuk from Kangiqsualujjuaq, recorded with the help of McCombie Annanack. The artistic cover art is brought to you by Teresa Annanack from Kangiqsualujjuaq, full-time student in Multimedia at Collège Montmorency.

Publisher

All Arctic

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2024

Latest episode

12 Feb 2024

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Feb 2024

   Tommy Palliser: Learning Solo in College Classrooms, to Learning as a Community on the Land, Diving into the Unaaq Men's Association

   Languages: English & InuktitutTommy shares his story, from a 13 year old who had to quickly become independent, to graduating from University, to building a Northern life that is centered around community. As a young male himself, Tommy founded the Unaaq Men’s Association - using land based education to support, heal and empower Inuit men. Tommy shares what a community can do to support school perseverance. #inuktitut #college #perseverance #esuma #nunavik #unaaq #inukjuak

2. 

   12 Feb 2024

   Aida Kooneeliusie: Busy Mom, Entrepreneur, and College Student.

   Languages: English & InuktitutDo you know what it’s like to be a full-time student while also being a full-time mother to 3 kids, and running a side hustle ? Grab your coffee and listen to Aida’s life experiences as she shares with us the transition from living in the Arctic village of Salluit, to moving thousands of kilometres away to Montreal where she is pursuing her education dreams. Along the way, she is also supporting kids as they integrate into a new culture and language, while ke...

3. 

   12 Feb 2024

   Kayla Meeko & Vicky Tukkiapik: Is college education colonial? Let’s hear what a college student and a primary school teacher have to say.

   Language: EnglishKayla Meeko & Vicky Tukkiapik: Is college education colonial? Let’s hear what a college student and a primary school teacher have to say.In this episode, you will hear the personal lived experiences of two incredible women from Quaqtaq, Nunavik. Topics discussed include: role of parents in school perseverance, differences between Western education and traditional Inuit epistemologies, building relationships, and using routines as a tool.#KI #college #perseverance #esuma #...

4. 

   12 Feb 2024

   Sarah Samisack: How Hockey Got This College Mom Through a Rough Patch & Her Fashion Design Aspirations

   Languages: English & InuktitutSingle Inuk moms balance much more than their own studies when they come south for college. They are balancing the needs of their whole family, as everyone goes through culture shock. In Sarah’s college story it was actually HOCKEY that was the saving grace, helping her and her kids find the integration and balance that they needed. Sarah, an aspiring fashion designer, shares all sorts of tips from building routines, to when she gets her hom...

5. 

   12 Feb 2024

   Nicolas Alasuak & Maata Putugu: “The Sky is Not the Limit’. Pilot Nicolas and multi-lingual Maata who have mastered the skies, to new languages.

   Languages: English & Inuktitut Nearly every little kid in Nunavik dreams of being a pilot! Planes, in our isolated villages, are part of our everyday reality from delivering our mail to food staples, yet still the magic of flight captures our imagination. Lets learn how Nicolas followed his childhood dream and what the Sparrow program, designed to train more Inuit as pilots, looks like now.Maata is a communication expert - speaking with ease in multiple languages, including Inuktitut and ...

6. 

   1 Feb 2024

   Trailer: ESUMA School Perseverance Podcast

   Welcome to the ESUMA School Perseverance Podcast. This year, ESUMA is bringing to you a series of podcast episodes around the topic of school perseverance. On these episodes, you will hear stories, testimonials and experiences coming from school staff, teachers, leaders, students, and community members from Nunavik. This season, you will hear the voices of Vicky Tukkiapik, Kayla Meeko, Aida Kooneeliusie, Tommy Palliser, Nicolas Alasuak, Sarah Samisack and many more. Our guests discuss healthy...

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