Louis Riel School Division is proud to celebrate Sean Oliver, named runner-up for the 2025/2026 Susan Langley Earth Steward Teaching Award. The national award recognizes educators making meaningful contributions to sustainability education through their leadership, the inspiration they provide to students and school communities, and creative approaches to sustainability learning.
For over 14 years, Sean, a Red River Métis educator and Indigenous land-based learning specialist in LRSD, has made the land his classroom.
A school day with Sean can mean harvesting and gathering, fishing sustainably, listening to stories, exploring one of his three Indigenous science tours, or discovering Métis histories on a walking tour at The Forks. Across LRSD, students learn not only about the land, but with it and from it.
Sean sees that learning as something that reaches beyond the classroom:
“Education has the power to help us see that we are not separate from one another or from the natural world. When we understand what we do to one we do to all, we can choose actions rooted in respect, reciprocity, and love, and together create a more just, compassionate, and sustainable world.”
Sean credits the late Kookum Hilda Kent, LRSD’s Council of Grandmothers and Grandfathers, Indigenous Youth Leadership, and his colleagues and students for what he continues to learn alongside them.
Congratulations, Sean, on this well-deserved recognition and for continuing to create opportunities for students to learn with and from the land.
