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Upcoming Events
Upcoming PD Offerings
Recorded PD Offerings
Virtual Professional Development
The Indian Education for All Unit has recorded webinars for educators to help with the implementation of Indian Education for All. These webinars feature Montana teachers and tribal knowledge keepers sharing best practices for teaching about American Indian cultures and histories.
IMPORTANT UPDATE – At this time educators are no longer eligible to earn PDUs for watching the recorded IEFA webinars. Over the summer IEFA staff will restructure the process for earning PDUs for the webinars. They will be redesigned to meet the requirements outlined in ARM 10.55.714, to include the components required of high-quality professional learning.
These series provide detailed information to build your background knowledge in the topic being presented. They are intended for individuals who want to learn more in order to more confidently and accurately present and teach about the topic.
Covers different aspects of sovereignty, including a basic history of tribal sovereignty, tribal governance, natural resource management, blood quantum, cultural autonomy, and more.
Indian Boarding Schools: From History to Healing
Covers the boarding school era and its history and implications. The intention is to build background knowledge and provide a context for both the intergenerational trauma and the resiliency of many tribal individuals in the United States and Canada. Trigger warning: these videos contain graphic and honest depictions of boarding school experiences that some may find triggering or troubling.
Covers tribally specific and engaging ethnobotany information that can build teacher background knowledge and provide guidance for respectful classroom implementation.
These series build background knowledge and provide specific resources and strategies for teachers to integrate into their curriculum.
Unpacking the Essential Understandings
Covers the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians and provides basic strategies and resources for implementation throughout curriculum in any educational setting, pre-K through 20.
Essential Understandings Deeper Dive
A follow-up to the Unpacking the Essential Understandings webinar series, with a deeper dive into strategies and resources for integrating the Essential Understandings into any educational setting and content area, pre-K through 20.
IEFA Across the Content 2023–2024
Provides an interactive opportunity for K–12 teachers to learn from teachers through model lessons, sharing of resources and strategies, and discussion.
Covers current events and contemporary issues facing Montana tribes and strategies for respectful integration, including how to choose primary documents for classroom use, pre-K through 20.
Thunderous Book Study
- Session 1: How to Build a Lesson with April Wills
- Session 2: Culturally Responsive Teaching with Mandy Smoker Broaddus
- Session 3: Exploring Identity Through Narrative: Crafting Cultural Stories with Lessons from Nature with Jacie Jeffers
An Introduction to Indian Education for All in Montana
This Hub course provides a basic foundation for implementing Indian Education for All (IEFA) in your classroom. IEFA offers students an opportunity to meet academic standards in multiple content areas and grade levels as they learn about the distinct and unique cultures and heritages of American Indians.