For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I want to look closely at what our classroom materials actually teach. Whose account of history are we using? Which nations do we name? Do children encounter Indigenous people in contemporary life, as well as in the past? Those questions matter when we choose a book, plan an activity, or decide which version of a familiar story to tell. One practical step for this week: choose a resource you already use and review it. • Who created it, and whose perspectives does it include? • Does it identify a specific nation or community? • Does it show contemporary Indigenous lives? • What might need correcting, replacing, or adding? The Smithsonian’s Native Knowledge 360° resources are a useful place to begin: https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360 This also connects to a broader question I’m exploring about culturally responsive schools: how do the communities we serve shape what we teach and whose knowledge we recognize? Having a diverse student body gives us a responsibility to examine those choices. It doesn’t answer the questions for us. What’s one resource you’ve reconsidered after learning more about whose story it tells?