Session 7: 8-9am
Keynote: Leslie Harper (Ojibwe)
Introduced by Chris La Tray
Ballroom
Session 8: 9:15-10:15am
Session 8A - Integrating text, images, audio, and handtalk into Indigenous language lessons
Presenter: Crystal Redgrave, Nakona University
Room: Ballroom A
Description: Teaching Indigenous language begins with a clear vision. Key questions need to be answered in order to create a curriculum. What knowledge and skills do you want children to learn? How do you know they are learning what is intended? How are these skills going to be taught? Who is going to teach the children? And what is the vision for the next 15,000 years? These questions are essential for all future curriculum, instruction, and assessment development. After setting the vision, a clearly defined scope and sequence of content and skills must be developed. The scope and sequence must advance indigenous knowledge and understanding that is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, values, culture, and beliefs. The time has come to reinvent what Indigenous education means.
Who should attend? Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers, Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Administrators, Community members/family
Session style: traditional presentation style
Session 8B - Action-Based Learning: Teaching Indigenous Languages with TPR
Presenter: Annie Sage, Arapahoe Elementary School, Wyoming
Room: Ballroom B
Description: Total Physical Response (TPR) will be used to teach Indigenous languages through teacher modeling, student modeling, student participation, writing, repetition and practice.
Who should attend? Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers
Session style: interactive/engaging/participants are moving and practicing techniques
Session 8C - My language Journey to Teaching language online
Presenter: Alexx Eagleman-James, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Language & Culture Department
Room: Ballroom C
Description: Alexx will share her journey to becoming an online Dakota language teacher. Alexx Eagleman-James is a Dakota Language Specialist in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Indigenous Language acquisition and Dakota History. She received her Dakota Iapi Unspewicakiyapi Teaching Certificate and has since then committed herself in training other Dakota Language learners and soon to be teachers. I currently teach Introduction and Intermediate Dakota Language online and has been a member of the teaching staff going on four years. Alexx participates in the Good Relative Collaborative Alliance and she is a board member of Wichayuota. It is dedicated to offering innovative and culturally responsive Dakota/Lakota Language education opportunities. Currently a lot of her language work and teaching is 100% through Zoom.
Who should attend? traditional presentation style, conversation/discussion
Session style: Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Community members/family
Session 8D - Language Learning & Technology
Presenter: Dr. Velma Pretty on Top, Billings Public Schools
Room: Red Lodge
Description: The world of technology has advanced at a rapid pace and there are many technological tools that can enhance language learning in your classroom. Students have grown up with the advances in technology and are proficient and comfortable utilizing electronic devices. Learn how technology can be utilized as a resource for Indigenous language learning.
Who should attend: Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers, Administrators
Session style: traditional presentation style, conversation/discussion, Participants who bring laptops will have opportunities to practice some of the technology.
Session 8E - Class 7 Teacher Resources
Presenter: Matt Bell, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Room: Roundup
Description: The Montana Office of Public Instruction curates supports for Class 7 teachers. In this session, you will learn how to access and use some of these resources.
Who should attend: Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers, Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Administrators, Community members/family
Session style: traditional presentation style, conversation/discussion
Session 9: 10:30-11:30
Session 9A - Integrating text, images, audio, and handtalk into Indigenous language lessons
Presenter: Crystal Redgrave, Nakona University
Room: Ballroom A
Description: Teaching Indigenous language begins with a clear vision. Key questions need to be answered in order to create a curriculum. What knowledge and skills do you want children to learn? How do you know they are learning what is intended? How are these skills going to be taught? Who is going to teach the children? And what is the vision for the next 15,000 years? These questions are essential for all future curriculum, instruction, and assessment development. After setting the vision, a clearly defined scope and sequence of content and skills must be developed. The scope and sequence must advance indigenous knowledge and understanding that is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing, values, culture, and beliefs. The time has come to reinvent what Indigenous education means.
Who should attend? Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers, Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Administrators, Community members/family
Session style: traditional presentation style
Session 9B - Reclaiming Hinóno’eitiít with Technology in a middle school classroom.
Presenter: Claudette Duran, Arapahoe Middle School, Wyoming
Room: Ballroom B
Description: Participants will learn how to use technology through the use of google slides to build a foundation for speakers.
Who should attend? interactive/engaging/participants are moving and practicing techniques, traditional presentation style
Session style: Middle school/high school teachers
Session 9C - The Fort Peck Tribal School
Presenter: Dr. Ramey Growing Thunder, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Language & Culture Department
Room: Ballroom C
Description: The Fort Peck Tribal School fellows, community members, and newly formed Board of Directors have been working to open its doors to K-12 students interested in learning from an Indigenous cultural-based and land-based curriculum, starting with Kindergarten and First grade in year one, with the first opening in fall 2027. We have been developing for over two years in a school design fellowship. Want to start a Tribal School and hear our journey so far, come listen in.
Who should attend? conversation/discussion
Session style: Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers, Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Administrators, Community members/family, Students
Session 9D - TBD
Presenter: TBD
Room: Red Lodge
Description: Info coming soon!
Who should attend?
Session style:
Session 9E - Chat with Matt about Class 7 Licensure/Renewals
Presenter: Matt Bell, Montana Office of Public Instruction
Room: Roundup
Description: Do you have questions about Class 7 licensure or renewal, either current or lapsed? Do you need more information from someone at OPI? Do you need the forms? Do you need to take the online IEFA course? Matt is here to help! Come by to chat with Matt, pick up forms, and get on a list of folks who need the IEFA course for licensure renewal.
Who should attend? Aspiring, current, or lapsed Class 7 teachers
Session style: conversation/discussion & individual assistance
BUFFET LUNCH IN THE HOTEL RESTAURANT
11:30am-12:15pm
sponsored by the Montana Digital Academy
Session 10: 12:15-1:15pm
Session 10A - Language Matters: Class 7 Zoom Series
Presenter: Whitney TopSky
Room: Ballroom A
Description: Attendees will learn about MTDA's Class 7 website, zoom sessions and collaboration.
Who should attend? Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers, Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Administrators, Community members/family
Session style: traditional presentation style, conversation/discussion
Session 10B - Teaching Indigenous Studies through Computer Science
Presenter: Veronica Miller
Room: Ballroom B
Description: This is training demonstrates how elementary teachers on the Wind River Reservation integrate computer science into their existing instruction in a way that is meaningful to students’ culture, identities, and interests.
Who should attend? Elementary teachers, Community members/family, Language Instructors
Session style: traditional presentation style
Session 10C - Journey of Our Language and the methods to get there
Presenters: Winona Runsabove-KillEagle & Ethan Three Stars, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Language & Culture Department
Room: Ballroom C
Description: Understanding language, culture, values and spirituality in every lesson.
Who should attend? Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers, Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Administrators, Community members/family
Session style: interactive/engaging/participants are moving and practicing techniques, traditional presentation style, conversation/discussion
Session 11: 1:30-2:30pm
Session 11A - Chippewa Cree Tribe: History, Kinship, Migration, Reservation
Presenter: Elaine TopSky
Room: Ballroom A
Description: The Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy Reservation is the home of two tribes the Chippewa and Cree. The session includes information how the two tribes migrated from the east and north and became one group from necessity to survive the harsh period before settling on the reservation. The two bands continued to live on the northern plains and became desperate living on the outskirts of towns. Despite the harsh times the two tribes have become one tribe the Chippewa Cree and have kept the language and traditions.
Who should attend? Community members/family
Session style: traditional presentation style
Session 11B - Strategies to help teach Native Languages in the classroom.
Presenters: Lavonna Little Owl-Real Bird & Reva Little Owl-Not Afraid, Crow Agency Schools
Room: Ballroom B
Description: Teaching Native Languages with sign language and variety of strategies.
Who should attend? Early childhood teachers, Elementary teachers, Middle school/high school teachers
Session style: interactive/engaging/participants are moving and practicing techniques, traditional presentation style, conversation/discussion
Session 11C - My language Journey to Teaching language online
Presenter: Alexx Eagleman-James, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Language & Culture Department
Room: Ballroom C
Description: Alexx will share her journey to becoming an online Dakota language teacher. Alexx Eagleman-James is a Dakota Language Specialist in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include Indigenous Language acquisition and Dakota History. She received her Dakota Iapi Unspewicakiyapi Teaching Certificate and has since then committed herself in training other Dakota Language learners and soon to be teachers. I currently teach Introduction and Intermediate Dakota Language online and has been a member of the teaching staff going on four years. Alexx participates in the Good Relative Collaborative Alliance and she is a board member of Wichayuota. It is dedicated to offering innovative and culturally responsive Dakota/Lakota Language education opportunities. Currently a lot of her language work and teaching is 100% through Zoom.
Who should attend? traditional presentation style, conversation/discussion
Session style: Post-secondary teachers or teachers of adults, Community members/family
Session 12: 2:45-3:35pm
Closing Session: Guided Discussion about Class 7 Next Steps with Whitney TopSky
Ballroom
****DOOR PRIZES****
6 renewal units available for Day 2