Tribally Controlled School: Best Practices and Tools for Success

ROGER C. BORDEAUX, Ed. D.

Wambdi Ob Mani = Walks With Eagles

Wounspe Wawokiya Yuha Mani = Walks and Helps Others in Education

History of Tribal SchoolsRequirements to apply and maintainBIE Blueprint and re-organizationRecommendations for Sovereignty

History

BC

up to 1966 0

1966 1

1972 – IEA - Establishment grants 15

1975 – ISDEAA 60

1978 - 561

1988 – TCSA 125

2001 – NCLB - NASIA

Requirements to apply and maintain

ISDEAA and TCSA

Plus

NASIA

Plus

NCLB – Title I

25 USC Chapter 27 TCSG

§ 2501. Declaration of policy § 2502. Grants authorized § 2503. Composition of grants § 2504. Eligibility for grants § 2505. Duration of eligibility determination § 2506. Payment of grants; investment of funds § 2507. Application with respect to Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act § 2508. Role of the Director § 2509. Regulations § 2510. The tribally controlled grant school endowment program § 2511. Definitions

BIE Blueprint and Re-organization

American Indian Study Group

Blueprint for Reform – effective teachers and principals, agile organization, promote self determination, support through partnership, budget

Secretarial Order 3334 = BIE Implementation Plan – Phase One and Two

Group of 65 recommendations – streamline, TA by tribes, no duplication, BIE not a state, local content and performance

standards, NEGREG, MOA, full funding, real consultation, tribal decision on contracting or granting, others

Recommendations• Grant Support Costs• Facilities Operations• Facilities Backlog• Culturally Based Education Culturally-Based

Indigenous Language Use, Culturally-Based Pedagogy, Culturally-Based Curriculum, Culturally-Based Patterns of Participation in Leadership and Decision-Making, and Culturally-Based Methods of Assessing Student Performance

• CREDE – joint productive activity, language and literacy development,

contextualization, complex thinking, instructional conversation, modeling and child directed activity

• Creating Sacred Places for Children language and culture, school and community, interactive teaching, performance based, etc. (OERI)

Additional Questions?

• For additional comments or questions after today’s webinar, please submit them to the National Indian Education Association at NIEA@NIEA.ORG.