Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Indian Education
With the passage of the Indian Education Act of 1972, Indian education programs across the nation were commissioned to assist public schools to address problems of low achievement and high dropout rates among American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students. Since that time, Title IX educators have established many high-quality programs that provide eligible students with tutoring, counseling, cultural enrichment, and other services designed to meet the "culturally related academic needs" of American Indian and Alaska Native students. from A New Path: Strategies and Methods for Title IX Programs Operating Under the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994Recommended and Popular NWREL Resources
- The Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends from the Northwest
- Learn-Ed Nations Inventory: A Tool for Improving Schools With American Indian and Alaska Native Students (PDF)
- A Review of the Research Literature on the Influences of Culturally Based Education on the Academic Performance of Native American Students (PDF)
from By Request...
- Northwest Sampler: Hardin Public Schools: Paraeducators Play Multiple Roles in Instruction, Family Advocacy, and Indian Education at Hardin Public Schools in Working Together for Successful Paraeducator Services: A Guide for Paraeducators, Teachers, and Principals, May 2002.
from Comprehensive Center
- Advocating for Culturally Congruent School Reform: A Call to Action for Title IX Indian Education Programs & Parent Committees
- Culture and Academics Conference Draws Accolades: Successful school improvement strategies for Indian students highlighted
from Schoolwide Northwest (Summer-Fall 2000) - Indian Education: Meeting IASA's Challenge of High Standards for All
- Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends from the Pacific Northwest New!
- Just the Facts from Title IX: Guidelines for the Title IX Parent Committee
- A Native Perspective on the School Reform Movement
- A New Path: Strategies and Methods for Title IX Programs Operating Under the Improving America's Schools Act of 1994
- Promising Programs in Native Education (PDF)
- Title IX Coordinators in the Northwest: A list of Title IX Indian Education Coordinators in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming
from Education, Career and Community
from Equity
from Northwest Education
- Drums for Peace: a Lakota family is passing on a legacy of peace begun on a battlefield in 1862 from Advocating for Children, Winter 1997.
- Fin And Feather: Lessons both old and new are found in the familiar splash of the salmon and the novel cluck of the chicken from Living Lessons: How Projects Engage Kids and Deepen Understanding, Spring 2002.
- From Division To Vision: Achievement climbs at a reservation school high in the Rocky Mountains from Closing The Gap: How Northwest schools are raising minority achievement, Fall 2002.
- Native Plants, Native Knowledge from Discoveries in Learning: Lessons from Lewis & Clark, Summer 2003.
- Rediscovering Coyote and Raven: The ancient art of spirit masks moves into the digital age from Living Lessons: How Projects Engage Kids and Deepen Understanding, Spring 2002.
- A Talking Book: An endangered language flourishes again at a Puget Sound school from Living Lessons: How Projects Engage Kids and Deepen Understanding, Spring 2002.
- Teaching from the heart: On the Warm Springs Reservation, teachers offer students stability, new pathways to learning, and a connection to their tribal heritage from Growing Great Teachers: Professional Development That Works, Summer 2000.
- Under The Same Sun: In Alaskan villages located far from traditional teacher prep programs, new recruits with deep local roots are taking an innovative route to becoming teachers from New Teachers: From Surviving to Thriving, Winter 2001.
- What Works from Growing Up Gifted: the Challenge of High-Ability Students, Fall 1997.
- When Cultures Clash In The Classroom: Training in Native ways gives teachers the sensitivity to work effectively with Native kids from Closing The Gap: How Northwest schools are raising minority achievement, Fall 2002.
from Northwest Teacher
- Ways of Knowing: Native Knowledge and Western Science (Winter 2003)
from Technology in Education
- An American Indian Uses Technology to Make a Difference
from The Circuit (Winter-Spring 1999)
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