Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement: Looking ahead to five more years. Story pole raising at Grand Forks Secondary School in May 2011 was part of the aboriginal education program supported by the aboriginal enhancement agreement in SD51.
Photo by Mona Mattei. Aboriginal education has never looked better in Boundary School District 51 (SD51). With aboriginal student graduation rates at an all time high, a diverse selection of aboriginal education programs in place and more to come, SD51 and the Boundary Aboriginal Education Council is looking ahead to signing a new agreement this coming June. Five years ago the Boundary School District and the Boundary Aboriginal Education Council -- which is composed of members from the Boundary Metis Association, the Boundary All Nations Aboriginal Council (BANAC) and parents of aboriginal students -- entered into an agreement to develop and implement an Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement for the school district to provide focus to aboriginal funding allocation and goals.
The new agreement will be framed by a medicine wheel. 28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter. Challenging Arizona's Ban on Ethnic Studies. Share In January 2011, Arizona state Attorney General Tom Horne declared the Tucson Unified School District MAS (Mexican American Studies) program illegal.
This despite the curriculum’s astonishing success in graduating 100 percent of its students from high school and obtaining college placement for 82 percent of its alumni. Over the past year, teachers, students and administrators have come together to challenge Horne’s ruling, but on this past January 10, the TUSD school board voted four to one to immediately cease all MAS classes. Horne’s decision entailed the widespread removal of select books that were used in the curriculum. The list of banned books is extensive, includes important Latino authors and activists’ books that were banished from the school system and has provoked particular outrage in Arizona and beyond.
My colleague Habiba Alcindor penned a good post detailing the furious and forthright responses of numerous activist groups to Arizona’s efforts to censor ethnic studies. Network of Teacher Activist Groups. No History Is Illegal A Campaign to Save Our Stories They say shut it down. We say spread it around! As a network of Teacher Activist Groups (TAG), we believe that education is essential to the preservation of civil and human rights and is a tool for human liberation. In alignment with these beliefs, TAG is proud to coordinate No History is Illegal , a month of solidarity work in support of Tucson’s Mexican American Studies (MAS) Program.
In the month of February we invite you to strike back against this attack on our history by teaching lessons from and about the banned MAS program. February 1 is the first day on which TUSD must comply with this law. Our history is not illegal. Videos In Lak’ ech: A Look Inside the Forbidden MAS Classes Recent Pledges Allison Podmore Future Middle School teacher Cincinnati, Ohio Manuel Barrera, PhD Associate Professor of Urban Education, Metropolitan State University, Minnesota Excelsior, Minnesota. Philadelphia students, educators visit Liberty and Freedom high schools. Bethlehem Area Social Studies teacher Joanne Widdersheim gathered 10th-graders in a circle Friday.
She tasked them with revisiting a question she posed to them at the start of the semester: Where do you want to be in 30 years? Students had a few minutes to draft a Time magazine cover with a witty slogan. Widdersheim teased students, pressed them to work faster and knew when to lay off when a shy student needed more time. She also had them laughing hard. “That wasn’t a show,” Liberty Assistant Principal Nikolas Tsamoutalidis said of the teachers. A group of Philadelphia educators and students spent Friday at Liberty and Freedom high schools learning about the school’s rollout of buildingwide culture changes.
This school year, the Bethlehem Area School District launched a two-year implementation of a concept called restorative practices. The program strives to build community, lower discipline problems and boost student performance. City's First Nations students continue impressive progress. Merritt Herald - Value in Aboriginal program for non-Aboriginals as well. Proficiency-based learning gaining popularity for its focus on knowledge.