**7. Creating Community Education That Anticipates Change**

The creation of community-based curricula that are transformative and anticipate change and innovation must be viewed as an essential activity in the development of a contemporary and sustainable orientation to Indigenous education. Indigenous science curricula development presents the opportunity to integrate principles of sustainability along with appropriate traditional environmental knowledge. In this way, Indigenous science forms a foundation for community renewal and revitalization. In engaging the development of curriculum in this way, Indigenous science also evolves and expands in scope. Indeed, Indigenous science has always reflected this ability to integrate, expand, and create new knowledge. As community members and allies learn, strategize, plan, and act together in relationship to addressing real and pressing issues, they create a learning community that can weave and integrate traditional knowledge with practical skills and contemporary knowledge in ways that are creative, effective, and lead to new insight and community knowledge. The following are guiding considerations which can help to initiate and eventually achieve these aims.
