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PERSONNEL: Indian Education Advocates support academic access for Native American students. They facilitate student success through existing district personnel and volunteers to extend a partnership between home and school within the Native American community.

ADMINISTRATOR:
Deila Steiner
436-1988

ADVOCATES/EDUCATION SPECIALISTS:
Kris Ross and Kate Marx
436-1963

EXPECTATIONS FOR TEACHERS: If assistance is needed for any Native American student, contact these individuals. Their role is to assist and support the academic success for all students.

 

INDIAN EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND OPPORTUNITIES 2006/2007

Indian Education Newsletter: The Indian Education Newsletter provides insight into who we are as an organization and highlights the various activities and community events the Native American Youth of Lincoln Public Schools sponsor and attend throughout the school year. The Indian Education Newsletter is a monthly newsletter providing a voice for our Native families and students highlighting student achievements, news, student attendance and academic success, cultural education, community resources for families, scholarship opportunities, school testing deadlines, school policies, and higher education information. All information provided in this newsletter is specifically for our Native students and families in our community as well as a great faculty resource for Native American opportunities and awareness. The Newsletter is printed monthly during the school year and can be found on this website under "newsletters".

Northeast Native American Advisory Course: The Northeast Native American Advisory Course will not be offered first semester 2006-2007.

High School Native American Caucuses: Caucuses are an opportunity for students to build community and awareness within their schools, a comfortable atmosphere where students can discuss issues related to culture, individuality, academics, and a place where students can meet with faculty who will have the resources necessary to positively guide each student through their school career. Indian Education promotes and participates in the clubs and provides teachers with resources for the students involved

Middle School Native American Clubs: Indian Education created middle school Native American Clubs to inspire and enable our young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Our Native American Clubs provide a positive place where Native American students can go to celebrate their culture and community, to enjoy healthy fun with their peers and to learn new skills and self-confidence under the guidance of LPS and Indian Education staff.

Native American Student Leadership Conference: The Seventh Generation: Indian Education hosted the First Annual Native American Student Leadership Conference in September of 2004. The Second Annual Native American Leadership Conference was held in May of 2005. This conference was created by student input and involvement, as well as strong support from staff in the LPS community. The mission of this conference is to provide high school Native American students and participants the opportunity to hear and observe Native American professionals and scholars, as well as to participate in student forums focusing on student issues and in cultural exchanges in an enjoyable community experience.

Indian Education’s Native American Student Leadership Conferences have been a success thanks to the help and cooperation from the Nebraska Department of Education, Southeast Community College, LPS Multicultural Offices and UNL’s UNITE over the past two years. Indian Education would also like to thank every high school faculty member who believed in and volunteered to support our conferences. Many lasting friendships were created and have grown as a result of this event between students and faculty members and students and the surrounding community.

The conference was designed to encourage and promote student scholars and provide an opportunity for academicians and others to discuss the issues that affect Native American individuals on a local and national level.

The conference has raised the awareness of the history, culture and contemporary concerns of Native students while developing and building student leadership.

Indian Education, ELL, and Migrant Education Annual Scholarship Workshop: The Scholarship Workshop is a free, informational annual workshop series that is held for two evenings during the school year for our Native students and parents/guardians enrolled in LPS. Approximately 100 students and their parents/guardians enrolled in Indian Education are invited and encouraged to attend every year. The conference is held at centrally located Lincoln High School. Speakers from local, accredited postsecondary two and four-year colleges and universities, vocational, technical schools, and EducationQuest attend each year to speak with students about the many approaches to choosing their college careers as well as information on admissions, scholarship and grant opportunities. We are proud to offer our students and families the opportunity to better understand and fund their post-secondary experience. Indian Education staff also provides assistance for students filling out their ACT/SAT forms and FAFSA forms during the school year to prepare them for this experience.

Indian Education Summer Camps: Indian Education Summer Program offers morning workshops for three days to Indian Education students in grades K-3. This program has an academic component for a wide variety of students, including those with learning differences. This camp provides a small structured and nurturing setting for students to get the personal attention they need to build their self-confidence in and out of the classroom. This is a general activities program. The students will be doing everything from creating art, touring different sites around the city, and much more! Breakfast and lunch are provided. All students enrolled in Indian Education are invited to participate free of charge.

Indian Education Transition Seminars: Indian Education’s high school transition program includes a variety of activities that provides students and parents with information about the new school, provides students with social support during the transition, and brings middle school and high school personnel together to learn about one another's curriculum and requirements.

In 2006/2007 Indian Education will plan a spring social event for current and incoming high school students and writing programs where eighth-graders correspond with high school students in the Native American Caucus as a program that can provide students social support before their transition. Middle school Native American clubs will have the opportunity to attend a presentation by a high school student, panel of students, and a faculty member or members from the high schools they will be attending.

Indian Education advocates will facilitate Transition Seminars for 5th grade students entering middle school and 8th grade students entering high school. All students’ parents will be encouraged to attend. We will tour each school and meet personally with faculty to discuss any questions the students and parents might have.