Curriculum Consulting
Two decades of curriculum design and program leadership, grounded in Indigenous methodologies and doctoral research in Curriculum Studies. Aurélia Kaililani Kinslow advises leadership, boards and committees navigating curriculum review, indigenization and decolonization.
Approach
Grounded in research
Indigenous methodologies — relational, land-based, rooted in community. Aurélia's doctoral research in Curriculum Studies and Pacific Islands Studies informs an approach that draws on scholarship, lived experience, and place-based knowledge. Methods prioritize relationships, reciprocity and responsibility to the communities they serve.
Community-centered
Approaches are co-created with each partner, shaped by its particular histories, relationships and contexts. Aurélia works alongside leadership and committee members to surface what an organization is ready to examine and where the resistance lives. The process follows relationship and responds to their readiness.
Sustained
Work that takes root in institutional memory and continues beyond the engagement. The aim is capacity — leadership equipped to navigate the questions that emerge after the advisory relationship concludes, practices embedded in the organization's ongoing life.
Advisory Practice
Aurélia works with a small number of partners each year in sustained advisory relationships — counsel to leadership, boards and committees over the arc of a curriculum review or change process. She has served on Indigenous curriculum review committees, advised university leadership and agency directors on decolonial curriculum work, and contributed to policy reviews.
Sustained Advisory
Ongoing counsel to leadership teams and committees, typically spanning six to twelve months. The engagement is shaped by the questions and decisions the organization faces — curriculum review and assessment, policy examination, decolonial reviews of practice and structure, strategic guidance through periods of change. Aurélia participates in committee deliberations, advises on direction and process, and serves as advisor to leadership navigating difficult decisions. Engagements are structured around regular consultation, with the frequency and format determined by the organization's needs.
Contract Advisor Roles
Fixed-term positions within an organization — committee membership, accreditation participation, or advisory roles tied to a specific initiative or review. These engagements bring Aurélia into the governance structure for a defined period, providing counsel where decisions are made.
Background
Aurélia Kaililani Kinslow brings two decades of curriculum design and program leadership across public and higher education. She has designed and implemented curricula across systems, led programs, and advised post-secondary institutions on supporting faculty engagement with indigenization. Her doctoral research in Curriculum Studies, Pacific Islands Studies, and Indigenous methodologies — M.A. from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, M.Ed. and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia — informs an advisory practice grounded in both scholarly depth and lived experience.
Her artistic practice in ʻOri Tahiti — performance, choreography, and company direction — informs an embodied approach to pedagogy that complements her scholarly work. She is based in Vancouver, within the traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
What Endures
Organizations that engage Aurélia's counsel can expect sustained guidance through complex decisions, clarity on direction, grounding in both scholarly depth and community relationship. The work lives in the organization's practice and in the capacity of its leadership. What emerges is a shift in how leadership teams understand their organization, its relationships, and the decisions ahead of them.
Working Together
Initial conversations begin with a consultation request — a brief description of the context and the question at hand. From there, Aurélia and the prospective partner determine whether the work aligns, whether capacity exists, and what shape an advisory relationship might take.
Capacity is limited to three to five partnerships annually.