U & D

This fairly heady image illustrates a “tranformative schools model” proposed at a recent conference by EduCon participant Dennis Richards, an ed. guru and school administrator from Andover, MA. My purpose is not to have you think about Native Studies in terms of this model – but to have your think about this model in terms [...]

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In a previous post, I wrote about A Bill to Watch – the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which includes Sen. Brownback’s Resolution of Apology to Native Peoples. No, the bill has not yet reached the House, but there is new information.
First, the full text of Sen. Brownback’s amendment/Resolution is available online. It [...]

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LD291 – Or more correctly:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §4706
CHAPTER 403
H.P. 255 – L.D. 291

An Act to Require Teaching of Maine Native American History and Culture in Maine’s Schools

Enacted without funding, mandating but not requiring, not evaluated by a data collection tool, not tested, only indirectly addressed in the new state standards: Parameters for Essential [...]

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We will be looking at this road sign after our week at Camp Kieve. It is a powerful reminder that bias and stereotyping are alive and well in Maine. It’s not funny.
But there are puns and irony in the sign as well – it is a Literacy lesson. Tradin’ is one. Trade was the [...]

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You will find a new tab in the header of this page: Essentials: Short Version. I have removed the outdated Maine Learning Results from the full document and formatted the important Essential Understandings and Essential Questions so that they can easily be copied & used in lesson planning, grant requests, classroom posters, argument and [...]

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