Summer Institutes in
Place-Based Education
Training and Resources for Teachers, Administrators and Community Leaders
Sponsored by School-Community Leadership Consortium, Alaska
Native Educator Associations (ANEA) and Southeast Alaska Native Educators
Association (SEANEA)
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Digital Tools and Place-Based Practice
- Work with elders and other community knowledge
bearers to create curriculum with students.
- Design and guide
student-community development of a digital Cultural Resource
Atlas that can serve as a curriculum platform for all content
areas.
- Create a digital storytelling curriculum platform to
further connect student learning to important people and events within the
community.
- Adapt the culturally relevant learning rubric and standards
as well as the spiral curriculum tools developed through the Alaska Rural
Systemic Initiative.
- Build a team to implement the place-based education
plan developed at the Summer Institute.
- Receive follow-up technical assistance and resources to ensure that
the curriculum and pedagogy reforms designed during the Institute
are realized over time.
Practice Pedagogy of Place and Connect
Learning to Community and Culture
While there is a seemingly endless
supply of reform trends upon which educators may draw, the School-Community
Leadership Consortium recommends that schools with a significant number of
American Indian and Alaska Native students adopt a place-based approach.
Place-based education practice includes a primary focus on consistent and
comprehensive use of cultural curriculum and pedagogy and leverages the continuing
tribal priority on community development. Further, because students and community
members work together to create content and define its value and meaning,
place-based practice prompts teachers, administrators, parents, and community
leaders to re-examine the relationship between mainstream standards and traditional
knowledge.
Directors Ted Wright, Rob Wang, and Ray Barnhardt organized the
School-Community Leadership Consortium in 2006 to serve as a clearinghouse
for place-based
education resources and to extend the exceptional school change
model developed through the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative. The
Consortium is housed at Antioch University Seattle. These workshops
are the first in a series to be held every summer.
Please join us in Sitka, AK June 26-28 ~ Juneau , AK July 19-21
~ or Seattle, WA August 9-11 (CANCELED) for one of three summer
sessions:
For more information contact Ted
Wright <twright@antiochsea.edu> or
Rob Wang <rwang@antiochsea.edu> or call
the School-Community Leadership Consortium @ 206-268-4633
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