Mission & Vision

Mission

Tsuut’ina Nation strongly believes that education is a universal right that fosters the well being of the individual and the community. Tsuut’ina Nation believes in lifelong learning and education which begins in early childhood and extends throughout adulthood, and includes grade school, post secondary education, and skills training.

Vision

Chiila Elementary School is located on the Tsuut'ina Nation in Alberta. Chiila Elementary School offers culturally immersive education that utilizes curriculum offered through Alberta Education and teaches Tsuut'ina language, morals, and values to students enrolled in kindergarten to grade four.

Traditional Values of the Tsuut'ina Nation

The Tsuut’ina Board of Education also believes in and is guided by the following seven traditional values:

Kindness –­ a capacity for caring and desire for harmony and well-being in interpersonal relationships.

Honesty –­ a necessity to act with the utmost honesty and integrity in all relationships recognizing the inviolable and inherent autonomy, dignity and freedom of oneself and others.

Sharing – a willingness to relate to one another with an ethic of sharing, generosity and communal consciousness and cooperation, while recognizing the interdependence and inter-relatedness of all life.

Strength – a consciousness of the need for kindness and respect for the integrity of oneself and others, to exercise strength of character, fortitude and self-­mastery in order to generate and maintain peace, harmony and well-­being within oneself and in the collective community.

Bravery– the exercise of courage and bravery on the part of the individual, so that the quality of life and inherent autonomy of oneself and others can be exercised in an atmosphere of security, peace, dignity and freedom.

Wisdom – the respect for that quality of knowing and gift of vision in others (and striving for the same within oneself) that encompasses the holistic view, possesses spiritual quality, and is expressed in the experiential breadth and depth of life.