North Vancouver ACTFL OPI Workshop
The Where Are Your keys team will be back in North Vancouver to join in with both Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ learners and teachers in an ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI)… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Squamish
Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Sníchim Foundation Spring Session
The WAYK team will return to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for a few weeks this spring to partner with the TWN language department and the Sníchim Foundation. We… Read more »
TWN Spring Session at the Yellow House
The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC in the fall of 2018 to partner with the TWN language department and Sníchim Foundation at the Yellow House… Read more »
Squamish Nation Introductory Workshop
The WAYK team will visit with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh teachers and learners at Squamish Nation to provide a 1-week introductory WAYK workshop in partnership with Ta na wa Ns7éyx̱nitm ta Snew̓íyelh (the… Read more »
May 2025 Program Launch at the Yellow House
The WAYK team returns to the Yellow House, home of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim adult immersion program. Our collaboration with the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh learners at the Yellow House dates back to 2018…. Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Spring Visit 2020
March 2, 2020 – April 17, 2020 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for 7 weeks in the spring of 2020 to partner with the… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Winter Visit 2020
January 6, 2020 – February 14, 2020 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC in the winter of 2020 to partner with the TWN language department,… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Fall Visit (November 2019)
September 4, 2018-October 19, 2019 November 4, 2019-November 22, 2019 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC in the fall of 2019 to partner with the… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Fall Visit (September 2019)
September 4, 2018-October 19, 2019 November 4, 2019-November 22, 2019 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC in the fall of 2019 to partner with the… Read more »
What I’ve Been Up To Since the WAYK Summer Internship
Here’s Mary Leighton’s update from the winter of 2017, six months after her summer with WAYK on St. Paul Island, Alaska. Thanks for the update, Mary! The summer internship seems… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Winter Visit
January 7, 2019 – April 12, 2019 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC in the winter of 2019 to partner with the TWN language department,… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Fall Visit
September 18, 2018-October 12, 2018 November 5, 2018-December 7, 2018 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for 9 weeks in the fall of 2018 to… Read more »
Tsleil-Waututh Nation Fall Visit
September 18, 2018-October 12, 2018 November 5, 2018-December 7, 2018 The WAYK team returns to Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC for 9 weeks in the fall of 2018 to… Read more »
Squamish Language Revitalization
About a year ago we partnered with Dustin Rivers, to train him and his community in WAYK and support the revitalization of the Squamish Language. Squamish Nation is located in… Read more »
“Save Your Language” Conference 2010
Here’s a short video of the SYL 2010 conference, held on June 5th and 6th in Vancouver, B.C, hosted by Squamish Nation language revitalization activist Dustin Rivers. Evan and I… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 22: “My Abilities Have Skyrocketed”
59 minutes and 24 seconds. [direct download] 1. Technique “Backup“ Dustin brought Tiffany and her toddler son with him, two regulars from his Vancouver Squamish language night Squamish Valley is… Read more »
The Squamish Universal Speed Curriculum
The “Universal Speed Curriculum” is a way of transcribing the core WAYK conversation, designed to go up to “want/have/give/take” transactional conversation in the target language. We have several examples of… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 17: Sometimes, the magic happens…
49 minutes and 52 seconds. [direct download] We debrief Dustin’s fifth WAYK Squamish language conversation night, that he holds in Vancouver, B.C., with plans to start another in nearby Squamish… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 14: The 3rd Debrief of Squamish Language Night
48 minutes 47 seconds. [direct download here] If you regularly listen to our podcasts, you know by now how highly we value debriefs, and the tremendous insight and improvement that… Read more »
WAYK Podcast, Episode 12: Dustin Rivers’ 2nd Squamish Language Night
[direct download here] Evan Gardner and Willem Larsen interview Dustin Rivers, a Squamish Nation WAYK instructor, in the ongoing progress of establishing a community WAYK Squamish language night, and other… Read more »