Redefining Literacy Through Place, Practice, and Lived Experience-Yukon

Today’s conversation takes us north, where learning is shaped by land, culture, and community. In a place where traditional schooling hasn’t always worked for everyone, literacy is being reimagined through hands-on, real-life experience. In the Yukon, literacy can look like navigating a lake when the weather turns, reading the land to find your way home, or knowing how to adapt when resources are limited. In this episode, we’re joined by Mark Studle from the Yukon Literacy Coalition. We talk about what happens when learning moves out of the classroom—and into canoes, workshops, and everyday tasks. It’s a conversation about innovation driven by need, and about redefining literacy in ways that might resonate far beyond the Yukon.