Booth Education Consulting
Education system consulting and northern community engagement for organizations working with First Nations across Yukon and British Columbia.
Education Division
System reviews, governance analysis, curriculum development, and implementation design for education organizations and Indigenous partners.
Advisory Division
Community engagement, governance advisory, engagement documentation, and local representation for organizations working with First Nations across Yukon and northern BC.
Education Consulting
We work with governments, school systems, Indigenous communities, and education organizations to examine how education systems serve learners — and where they fall short. Research rigour, governance expertise, and applied systems thinking across K–12, post-secondary, and adult learning.
Every recommendation grounded in data, research, and verified context.
Tools teams can implement with the capacity they have.
Indigenous governance, self-determination, and local voice drive the work.
Services
Independent, evidence-based reviews of education system function — governance structures, accountability frameworks, and the distance between policy and learner experience.
Applied research drawing on Canadian, Indigenous, and international evidence. Defensible methodology, transparent findings, actionable recommendations.
Curriculum development, instructional design, program review, and alignment analysis — from early years through post-secondary. We design, build, evaluate, and improve.
Strategic implementation planning, training architecture, and capacity-building tools that translate vision into sustained practice.
Culturally grounded consulting that centres Indigenous governance, self-determination, and community voice in system design, delivery, and decision-making.
Stakeholder engagement design, public consultation, and facilitated dialogue for organizations working across jurisdictional, cultural, and organizational boundaries.
Approach
Map the system. Review the evidence. Understand governance and conditions first.
Identify gaps, barriers, and opportunities through research and engagement.
Build practical tools, frameworks, and strategies shaped by evidence and community.
Client-ready deliverables built for use — not shelves.
Education systems don’t improve through reviews alone. They improve when someone turns findings into practical tools, clear plans, and sustained action.
Understand the system and the real problem before recommending anything.
Reusable frameworks that adapt as conditions evolve.
Build the system’s own ability to sustain this work.
Experience
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Contact
Whether you’re planning a review, building curriculum, designing implementation strategy, or strengthening Indigenous education governance.
Northern Advisory
Major projects in Yukon and northern British Columbia require meaningful engagement with First Nations communities — as a condition of regulatory approval, as a foundation for project success, and as an obligation to the communities affected. We provide the local infrastructure to make that engagement defensible, documented, and real.
Permanent local presence. No mobilization costs, no orientation period.
Direct understanding of Self-Government Agreements, Final Agreements, and northern jurisdictional contexts.
Engagement documentation built for regulatory and legal requirements.
Services
We design, deliver, and document engagement sessions in community on your behalf. Session planning, facilitation, and structured reporting — delivered within your methodology and timelines.
Your framework. Our presence. Documented outcomes.
Governance landscape briefings, jurisdictional context, engagement plan review, and strategic counsel. We help your team understand the political and structural environment before you enter it.
The preparation that prevents costly missteps.
Structured, defensible records of all engagement activity — who participated, what concerns were raised, what commitments were made, and what follow-up is required. Built for regulatory review.
The paper trail that holds up.
Ongoing northern presence for multi-year projects. Maintaining community relationships between formal milestones, attending key meetings, and flagging issues before they escalate.
Sustained presence. Not periodic check-ins.
Why Us
Based in Whitehorse with local knowledge of the territory. Your project starts without a learning curve.
Yukon’s 14 Self-Governing First Nations operate under a framework unlike anywhere else in Canada. We understand how it works.
Structured engagement records built for regulatory and legal review. Attendance, concerns, commitments, follow-up — all documented and defensible.
Education, resource development, health, infrastructure, environmental assessment — engagement expertise across sectors.
Single engagement sessions to multi-year retainers. We match the scope of your work.
We deliver what was agreed, on time, documented, and ready for your reporting framework.
Clients
Local engagement capacity for national and regional firms delivering projects in Yukon and northern BC.
Community engagement support for environmental assessments, remediation, mining, and infrastructure projects.
Engagement planning and facilitation for federal and territorial departments working with First Nations.
Community-based research support and engagement design for academic and funding organizations.
Contact
Whether you’re scoping community engagement for a regulatory process, planning a northern project, or looking for local representation on a multi-year contract.