MacDiarmid, Jim Director of Education, Sealaska Heritage Institute
Language and Culture for Success With Linda Belarde and David Katzeek This presentation will focus on the efforts of the Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) to address student achievement at the high school levels. Through a federal grant, SHI has initiated the development of science, literature, math, and heritage languagematerials designed to raise the students’ academic levels and language bases. By the time many students reach high school, they are language-delayed – as a result, they have difficulty expressing the knowledge they have and acquiring new information. The materials produced by SHI encourage the development of content language in science, math, and literature and conversational ability in the Haida, Tlingit, and Tsimshian languages.
