The in’s and out’s of culturally responsive science teaching: For teachers and teacher candidates; Building on individual strengths and pedagogical gifts; Realistic, informative, encouraging, and thoughtful; Highlighting the voices of teachers and students; Commonsense generalizations balanced with real teaching events; Benefits both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.

1. Benefits from interacting with Elders and Knowledge Keepers. Postcolonial education -- 2. Combining Indigenous knowledge and science. Connect to the land and nurture self-identities -- 3. Some initial concerns of teachers. Teaching as storytelling: worldview, spirituality, and metaphors. Protocols with tobacco -- 4. Challenges faced by teachers. Anti-racist education -- 5. Guidance by Indigenous cultures. Indigenous awareness: a matter of commitment -- 6. Critical elements that produce student achievement. The power of relationship building in learning -- 7. Culturally valid assessment. Degrees of autonomous learning environments for all students -- 8. The brain needs the heart. Stay calm, be brave, wait for the signs.