Communities in Canada
If you represent an Indigenous Nation or community in Canada, you can partner directly with Smash Education to explore a language-learning project shaped by your community’s priorities.
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Every language carries a story. Every community shapes its future.
We work with Indigenous Nations, communities and educators to explore community-led language revitalization through thoughtfully developed digital learning resources and curriculum.
Our languages today.Stronger tomorrows.
Communities in the United States
For Indigenous Nations and communities in the United States, Smash Education works in partnership with Languages4.
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LISTENING COMES FIRST.
Built on respect. Guided by community.
We recognize the rights, knowledge and leadership of Indigenous Peoples. Our work begins with listening, learning and building together—supporting each community’s language goals in a way that honours its culture, priorities and self-determination.
Listen first
Understand your community’s priorities.
Build together
Collaborate with language speakers and educators.
Support what matters
Develop learning opportunities shaped by community goals.
Our commitment and possible pathways
We recognize the historical harm experienced by Indigenous communities. Our commitment begins with humility: listening, respecting community leadership and working together toward the future each community chooses.
More than one way to work together.
A partnership may focus on collaborative Indigenous-language content development, access to Smash’s existing French, English or Spanish learning pathways, or both. The community’s priorities guide what is relevant; each arrangement is discussed together.
TWO AREAS OF EXPERTISE. ONE SHARED PURPOSE.
Your language. Your knowledge. Our educational expertise.
Every language carries its own history, meaning and ways of understanding the world. Our role is not to decide what should be taught, but to help communities transform their chosen language content into purposeful learning experiences.
Your community leads
Language, vocabulary, stories, cultural knowledge, learning priorities, appropriate permissions and content review.
Smash guides the pedagogy
Curriculum sequencing, instructional design, scaffolding, language-learning activities, practice opportunities and progressive skill development.
Together, we build learning pathways that reflect your community’s goals.
HOW WE CAN HELP
Tools for language revitalization.
Every community’s journey is unique. We can explore learning tools and resources shaped around different languages, age groups, learning goals and teaching contexts.
Culturally relevant curriculum
Work with community language speakers and educators to develop structured, community-informed learning sequences.
Community-led content
Explore ways to bring local voices, stories, vocabulary and approved cultural knowledge into meaningful learning activities.
Flexible learning access
Discuss learning resources for classroom, community and independent-learning contexts, based on your project’s needs.
Ongoing collaboration
Plan for content review, future updates and long-term development as your language project evolves.
Start with your learners. Build from there.
Children and young people
Discuss a sequence for your school or community language program, shaped around the ages, language knowledge and communication goals of your learners.
Adults and families
Explore content for people reconnecting with the language, learning at home or preparing to use it together in everyday life.
Your language educators
Plan lesson organization, oral models and guided practice with the language speakers and educators your community identifies.
A PATH SHAPED TOGETHER
From first conversation to a shared plan.
Listen and define
Understand your community’s goals, learners, language priorities and available materials.
Design and develop together
Combine community-approved language content with structured instructional design and meaningful learning activities.
Review and plan ahead
Discuss content review, access, responsibilities, implementation and potential future development.
A SHARED COMMITMENT
Supporting language revitalization for today and generations to come.
By combining the expertise of Indigenous language speakers and educators with thoughtful instructional design and digital learning tools, we can explore meaningful opportunities to learn, use and keep Indigenous languages alive.
A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS
Questions about partnering.
The partnership
Who can begin a conversation with Smash?
Indigenous Nations, communities, language programs and organizations interested in developing learning content can contact us. Tell us about the community, language and people who should be involved.
Can we develop content for a language Smash doesn’t currently offer?
Yes. A partnership can involve collaboratively developing content for a language Smash does not currently offer. Your community and Smash define the language-specific goals, materials, responsibilities and development scope together. This is a separately scoped project, distinct from the existing French, English and Spanish curricula.
Has Smash worked on an Indigenous language project before?
Yes. Smash has already collaborated with one Indigenous group. We discuss each new project on its own terms.
Planning & permissions
Community leadership and content
Who decides what language and cultural content is included?
Your community decides. Community-designated language speakers, educators and knowledge holders guide content selection, accuracy, cultural appropriateness, review and approval. Preferred terminology, language varieties, cultural protocols and content permissions are discussed before development.
Smash contributes curriculum-development and instructional-design expertise to organize approved materials into progressive learning experiences. Together, we agree who participates and how content will be reviewed and approved.
Does Smash create the curriculum, or does our community provide it?
It’s a collaborative process. Your community provides or approves the language and cultural knowledge, while Smash helps shape the pedagogical structure—how learners are introduced to concepts, practise new skills and build toward meaningful communication.
The specific responsibilities, materials, permissions and review process are agreed upon for each project.
Scope, rights and project arrangements
How are project costs and timelines determined?
Development pricing and timelines depend on the agreed scope, available materials, review process and responsibilities. These are discussed with the partner before a project is defined.
Explore project planningHow do we discuss content permissions and access?
Bring your community’s protocols and requirements to the initial conversation. Discuss what material may be used, who can review it, who should have access and the terms that need to be agreed before development.
Explore the partnership approachWhat about content ownership, access and ongoing updates?
Discuss your community’s requirements at the start. Ownership and usage rights, access, review responsibilities, ongoing updates and any associated costs should be agreed in the project terms.
How do partnerships work for communities in the United States?
For Indigenous Nations and communities in the United States, Smash Education works in partnership with Languages4. Contact Languages4 to explore a conversation about your community’s priorities.
Explore Languages4LET’S BEGIN THE CONVERSATION
Every meaningful partnership starts with a conversation.
Your language. Your learners. Your priorities. We’re here to listen.
Let’s begin a conversation