Awarded Grants

General support for Mauna Kea organizing efforts

The Hupa Language Immersion Project will create a cohort of 15 Learner/Teachers to complete 60 hours of Hupa Language Classes in order to increase their fluency and immersion teaching capabilities. The project will also create 8 immersion curriculum units to implement in HTEA center-based, in-school, after-school, and summer programming.

KCLC will retain and leverage its Primary (2.5–6-year-olds) and Elementary (6-12 year olds) Keres language classrooms through best practices of language immersion and Montessori pedagogy to invigorate Cochiti Keres language/culture.

The Weetumuw School Expansion Project will create a new immersion classroom environment for rising first and second grade language nest students, enabling our Mukayuhsak Weekuw (Children's House) preschool and Kindergarten community to retain tribal families in our immersion programming, while simultaneously recruiting potential new teachers and students though language retreats.

The project will create two intern positions for CLMAP language immersion to further advance their language immersion proficiency skills and experience professional development necessary to pursue Cherokee Language Immersion Instruction. Additionally, interns will document their internship experience in order to formalize the internship process for future program availability.

This project will leverage resources and increase the value of instruction at the Immersion Program classrooms by documenting “real-time” language and culture and create four seasonal lesson plan booklets in the Ojibwe language.

The project will create curricula in Okanagan Salish for our primary and elementary classrooms, increase the skill level of our teachers to utilize best language immersion practices, and assist our primary guide-apprentice to achieve certification as a Montessori primary guide.