Over the past three and a half years the IEOP has
actively administered regional trainings to tribal school
personnel in the Portland Area. Past regional trainings
are listed below.
Family Math
Trainings were followed with on-site technical assistance and the option to provide college credit or clock hours through coursework delivered by University of Idaho, College of Education faculty.
Summer 2006, at the Quinault Beach Resort in Ocean Shores, WA, on August 9-11, 2006, our project is offering the following with clock hours and university credits available:
IEOP Summer Institute – Ocean Shores, WA
at the Quinault Beach Resort & Casino
August 9-11, 2006
College credit and clock hours available
New Registration Deadline of August 1 , 2006
WE ARE ALL WORKING TOGETHER!
Where three rivers merge:
LEADERSHIP, PEER MENTORING, & BEHAVIORAL SUPPORTS
To celebrate, share, and enhance learning outcomes for all our tribal children, the Indian Education Outreach Project invites you to attend a summer institute entitled
“We Are All Working Together: Where Three Rivers Merge”.
Three rivers of lessons learned: (1) Leadership, (2) Peer Mentoring, and (3) Social, Emotional and Behavioral Supports will converge at this institute. Each river of learning will be guided by experts from within tribal schools across four states (Washington, Idaho, Oregon, and Montana). Those who have expertly navigated these rivers over the past four years will lead us in this journey. Parent and community involvement will be integral to the flow of each river.
Come celebrate, share, and learn from experts among you, and converge in the flow of the three rivers with our distinguished guest, Dr. Michael Pavel, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling Psychology from Washington State University and a member of the Skokomish Nation.
LEADERSHIP: We are all leaders! To promote excellence in education for tribal school children, this workshop intends to strengthen your personal commitment and skills to become leaders in your own settings.
PEER MENTORING: Learn the design and implementation of teacher-to-teacher systems of professional development through a peer mentoring process.
SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, and BEHAVIORAL SUPPORT: Learn practical strategies that foster positive growth for children of all ages through supportive educational and home environments.
Your schools matter! Your work matters!
You matter!
Come and take part in
“We Are All Working Together!”
Summer Institute ‘06.
Indian Education Outreach Project
Center on Disabilities and Human Development
University of Idaho
(208) 885-3726
olebens@uidaho.edu
During the Summer of 2005,
the project provided a week-long residential training entitled Enhancing
Academic Performance For All Students Through Positive Strategies at
the Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon. Two Washington residential schools
joined Chemawa for this training. The trainers were:
Marc Richmond of California and
Dr. Michael Newman of New Mexico.
The project provided an extraordinary Summer Institute in August of 2004 at the Quileute Aka Lot Center in La Push, Washington. Over one-hundred tribal school personnel, parents, students, school board members, tribal council members, and public school administrators attended the two-day regional training.
Three key-note speakers presented their areas of work that related
to the over-arching theme. Dr. Martin Brokenleg's, Faith Spotted
Eagle's, and Dr. Raymond Reyes' addresses were coupled with
small group discussion and a "conversation" held with fifteen people
representing educators, parents, IEOP staff, and a student. The subject
material the keynote presenters drew from is seen below in their keynote
address descriptions.
Keynote Address Descriptions
Dr. Martin Brokenleg
For
thousands of years, American Indian cultures nourished respectful
and courageous children without employing punitive discipline. Now,
recent youth development research is revealing the essential elements
in raising confident, caring children. Drawing on his research with
Drs. Larry Brendtro and Steve Van Bockern in their book, Reclaiming
Youth at Risk, Dr. Martin Brokenleg presents "The Circle of Courage" which offers concrete strategies for creating environments in which
all young people can grow and flourish.
Faith Spotted-Eagle
"Moving from RED RAGE to Spirit Smart Leadership" This presentation
examines the extensive amount of rage that is present in Native
communities. This rage is an emotional reaction to all the trauma
that has impacted our people through cultural oppression and other
ongoing hurts and traumas. Trauma is a personal injury and can be
addressed through continued healing work through the grief stages.
Our Native people are stuck not just in the anger part of healing,
but in their rage. Our pursuit in family relationships, tribes and
organizations is to skip over anger completely and go straight to
rage (for the throat). This approach is based on previous survival
reactions. Red Rage creates an extreme amount of dissension and
inability to peace make, thus inhibiting our ability to become Spirit
Smart. Native languages had concepts of the need to be spirit smart.
The western world has just now begun to call it "emotional intelligence." Leaders must engage in this work at reconciling their traumas if
healing is to continue to develop effective leadership and progress.
Not only are individuals in trauma, but most of our Tribal Nations
are living in a Trauma Response, ready to overreact to even simple
situations. Trauma survivors have the capability to become sub oppressors
and repeat the tyranny that was done to them. The saving grace is
that despite all of the oppression, we still are reaching to call
our spirits home, where the culture exists.
Dr. Raymond Reyes
Each
day we are invited by the Creator (She, He, It) to that sacred place
where our deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. In pre-Columbian
times, for many tribal societies, the purpose of education was to
learn how to be a good relative by defining one's personhood. The
purpose of this session will be to offer an overview of the essential
components of a community leadership model based on the principles
of respect, responsibility, and service to the common good. I will
explore the ecology of a community leader's "deep gladness," i.e.,
their giftedness, grace, and passion within the context of identity,
values, and emotional intelligence. I will examine a community's
"deep hunger," i.e., its intrinsic desire to be happy and healthy
within the context of answering the question: how do we create sustainable
community systems that develop human beings for the common good?
Learning from the elements of Martin Luther King's Beloved Community
and riding the winds of change in the challenging times we live
offers answers to such a question. Do you have the courage to be
happy and be a community leader for the common good? Come find out.
The project hired Lida Saskova of Buffalo Girls Productions to film
the keynote addresses, the "conversation," interviews with educators
and presenters, and other activities such as the salmon bake, drummers,
kitchen staff, and others. The purpose of filming the Institute was
to create six training videos to be used for educational purposes
in tribal schools.
LaPush children
LaPush Drummers
This training DVD is now available to all tribal school personnel. Please contact Olivia Lebens for more information.
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