Summer Virtual Professional Development - Earn up to 24 renewal units

Need renewal units? Not sure about attending an in-person PD during your precious summer off? The MT OPI IEFA Unit has some great options for you! Earn up to 24 renewal units for watching both our Series 2 Unpacking the Essential Understandings Webinar and the Essential Understandings Deeper Dive Workshops at your own pace. Learn more about the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians and how to implement them throughout your curriculum in any educational setting: K-12, pre-service teaching, informal education, after school programming, etc. Each webinar/workshop is a 90-minute recording you can watch when it suits you and your schedule. To earn renewal units, you will need to compete a short survey after watching each recorded episode. You will also gain access to the extensive resource folder that supports the materials referenced in both the Unpacking and Deeper Dive recordings. Over 100 educators have viewed the recordings, and their feedback indicates these 90-minute webinars/workshops are valuable, interesting, and immediately applicable to all teaching scenarios. *participants are only eligible to receive 2 renewal units per webinar/workshop, so if you attended the live sessions or watched the recordings previously, you will not be eligible to earn additional renewal units.

Series Two – Unpacking the Essential Understandings Playlist

Series Two – Unpacking the Essential Understandings Renewal Unit Feedback Survey

Essential Understandings Deeper Dive Playlist

Essential Understandings Deeper Dive Renewal Unit Feedback Survey

 

YouTube recordings designed to inspire students, “Montana’s Native People: Perspectives on the Clovis Child”: https://yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org/webinars-programs/mtnativepeoplesclovischild/ [yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org]

American Indians in the Military - A Warrior Spirit - This lesson is appropriate for grades 7-12.

Ancient Art: Bear Gulch and Atherton Canyon - Learn about these sites in Montana that hold one of the largest concentrations of pictograph and petroglyph images in North America. This lesson is appropriate for grades 6-12.

Ancient Islands in the Sky - Archaeology in the Beartooth Ice - This lesson is appropriate for grades 7-12.

Bison Restoration: Resources for Learning about Contemporary American Indian Issues - This online ready lesson helps students learn about restoration of the bison to several Montana reservations and the importance to American Indians. It is appropriate for grades 6-12.

Blackfeet and Crow Star Stories - This lesson is appropriate for grades 5-8.

Contemporary Indigenous Artists of Montana - This lesson will introduce students to several Native American Artists of Montana. It is appropriate for grades 7-12.

Crazy Mountain Cathedral - This lesson is appropriate for grades 7-12.

Crow Chief Plenty Coups - This lesson regarding Chief Plenty Coups is appropriate for grades 6-12.

CSKT Online Education Resources: Fire on the Land, Explore the River, Lower Flathead River Interactive Map and Resource Guide

Essential Understanding One Lesson - This online ready lesson helps students learn more about Essential Understanding One: Tribal Diversity. This lesson is appropriate for grades 5-12.

Learning about the Seals of Montana Tribal Nations - This online ready lesson helps students learn about the meaning of the seals for each of the Montana tribal nations. It is appropriate for grades 4-12.

Learning about Tribal Sovereignty - This online lesson will provide students with important information regarding tribal sovereignty. This is for grades 9-12.

Preserving the Sacredness of the Badger-Two Medicine - This online lesson will help students understand a little more about the remarkable ceremonial and legal history of the Badger-Two Medicine region and the Blackfeet Nation. It is appropriate for grades 8-12.

Resilience in Indian Country: Yesterday and Today - This online lesson tells a story of Crow woman named Pretty Shield and an American Indian youth of today. It is appropriate for grades 6-12.

Sacrifice Cliff and a Deadly Pandemic -This lesson provides students with a story about a pandemic that occurred in the 1800s. It is appropriate for grades 7-12. 

Who Was Red Fox James?- This lesson provides information to learn about Red Fox James and his historic contributions to American Indian and Native Alaskan Heritage Month. It is appropriate for grades 7-12.

 

Teaching Montana History-This blog aims to nurture a supportive and enthusiastic network of educators committed to place-based learning and teaching Montana history.

  

 

Resilience: Stories of Montana Indian Women is a compilation stories about Native American women across Montana history.  The stories reflect their personal and cultural resiliency, highlight  the diversity among Montana’s Indian Tribes, and provide a window into the impact of Federal Indian Policies and American political movements on Montana Indians.  Their stories also show students that ordinary people can do extraordinary things.  Companion lesson plans from the Montana Historical Society are located in the afterward.  

 

 

The purpose of this document is to help teachers, librarians, and curriculum directors evaluate classroom materials for stereotypes, inaccuracies, omissions, and biases about American Indians that are so prevalent in American literature, films, and educational materials, so educators can make informed decisions when selecting instructional materials.

100 Years: One Woman's Fight for Justice

 



100 YEARS is the story of Elouise Cobell and her 30-year fight for justice for over 300,000 Native Americans whose mineral-rich lands were grossly mismanaged by the US Government for over a century.

 

 

The Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians provide the structural foundation for IEFA Integration in Montana.  They were developed through consultation with Tribal members and the Montana Advisory Council on Indian Education.  The revised 2019 edition is the third version of this document.  

 

the framework: guide for Montana teachers and administrators implementing Montana Education for All

The Framework: A Practical Guide for Montana Teachers and Administrators Implementing Indian Education for All is designed to provide schools with a roadmap for IEFA Integration. Key topics include dimensions of multicultural education, school specific needs and approaches, and components of IEFA. 

Investigating the First Peoples: The Clovis Child Burial

This curriculum guide is for eighth through twelfth grade teachers and their students studying U.S. History. Recently, there has been DNA analysis of the ancient skeletal remains of a child buried near Wilsall, Montana. The investigation of the child’s DNA revealed surprising new information about the First Peoples in America and their relationship with modern American Indians.