The three-day event will be held virtually again due to the COVID-19 virus.
The aim is to provide participants with an understanding of culturally responsive education and equip them to transform their classrooms, pedagogy, and curriculum to fully support all students’ success.
Conference organizer and educator David Sheakley-Early said “When the classes and conference are combined, that helps give teachers and administrators the confidence to incorporate place-based curriculum and resources centered around Native Alaskan culture and heritage languages into schools,” noting teachers who have not taken the training are also welcome to attend the event.
In the three-day event, Our Cultural Landscape: Culturally Responsive Education Conference, is open to educators from across Southeast Alaska and to students enrolled in the University of Alaska Southeast Preparing Indigenous Teachers and Administrators for Alaska Schools program and UAS’s Master of Arts in Teaching program.
Program that brings Indigenous culture into the classroom expands to more communities in Southeast Alaska
Posted by Angela Denning | Jan 25, 2021
Tlingit Elder David Katzeek addresses a cohort of teachers
during a Thru the Cultural Lens seminar in the clan house of the Walter Soboleff Building in
Juneau in 2016. (Photo by Nobu Koch)
A program that teaches teachers how to incorporate culture into their classrooms has moved into several communities in Southeast Alaska. The program “Thru the Cultural Lens” is run by Sealaska Heritage Institute. It’s been in some of Juneau’s secondary schools for about seven years but this year it’s expanding to five K-12 school districts in smaller communities in the region.