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Culturally Responsive Teaching

Empowering Teachers with

Elder-Written Essential Understandings

Lessons & Examples from South Dakota's WoLakota Project

& North Dakota's Teachings Of Our Elders Project

Dr. Scott Simpson & Sharla Steever

TIE Learning Specialists

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Our Regional Work in ND & SD

  • Supporting BIE National Board Candidates
  • Offering Mentoring for New Teachers
  • Training Mentors
  • Classroom Modeling
  • Essential Understanding Development
  • Essential Understanding Implementation
  • Elder Video Interviewing
  • Resource Development (websites)
  • Lesson Design (trainings for teachers)

Key Themes in MT, SD and ND Essential Understandings

  • Tribal Sovereignty, Treaties & US Legal System and Policy (7)
  • Traditional Culture, Values and Language in Contemporary Lifestyle (6)
  • Individual Identity and Variety (5)
  • Stewardship and Interrelationship with the Land (4)
  • Learning, Storytelling and Oral Tradition (4)
  • Resiliency (3)
  • Group Cohesion through Generosity, Kinship and Humor (3)
  • Societal Contributions of Native People (2)
  • Spirituality (2)

http://www.wolakotaproject.org

http://wolakotaproject.org

http://teachingsofourelders.org

http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/cbs_responsivepedagogy.pdf

Dr. Scott Simpson

ssimpson@tie.net

Sharla Steever

ssteever@tie.net

  • Seven Understandings
  • Written by Native Elders across the state
  • Collective agreement across the state
  • Structure for alignment of lessons
  • 300+ and 200+ interview clips
  • Elders from ALL state tribal Nations
  • Multiple perspectives
  • Multiple stories
  • Local identification
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