Teaching Native History and Culture in the Classrooms

Educators will be on hand to conduct a session for Ohio teachers on the museum’s education initiative, Native Knowledge 360°, and the American Indian Removal: What Does It Mean to Remove a People? Lesson for Grades 7-12. The online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, documents, maps, images, and activities to help students and teachers understand an important and difficult chapter in United States history. This four-hour workshop will give educators an overview of the free online resources available to them that can help elevate the educational experience on these subjects in ways that provide context, are relevant, and build academic skills for their students.

Native Knowledge 360° (NK360°) provides educators and students with new perspectives on Native American history and cultures. Most Americans have only been exposed to part of the story, as told from a single perspective through the lenses of popular media and textbooks. NK360° provides educational materials and teacher training that incorporate Native narratives, more comprehensive histories, and accurate information to enlighten and inform teaching and learning about Native America.

High AIMS is a consortium of 30 public school districts in southwest Ohio. Fairfield City Schools will serve as this year’s host to 2,000+ educators for our 6th annual Summer Institute. Programming offered two nationally acclaimed keynote speakers and 250 breakout sessions as teachers and administrators immerse themselves in dynamic and inspiring professional learning.

Native Americans Changing the Narrative:

How we teach Indigenous histories and cultures is undergoing profound changes. Increase your ability to give students better cultural awareness, histories, and the ability to think critically about what they read and hear about Native Peoples. Learn to correct stereotypes in literature and supplement information in standards and textbooks; offer more accurate historical and contemporary representations of Native Peoples. Resources, video clips, curricula, leveled reading lists, Pre K-12. Pair with Session 2. Gifted PD, Competencies B, C. Interactive, brief model lessons. Suited for teachers of all subjects, Pre K-12, administrators, and district curriculum leaders.

and Native Americans Diving into Curriculum:

Implementing concepts from Session 1, learn to present better Native histories and contemporary representations of Indigenous Peoples, develop critical thinking lesson extensions, and develop better classroom libraries. Resources, video clips, curricula, leveled reading lists, Pre K-12. Gifted PD, Competencies B, C. Interactive, brief model lessons. Suited for teachers of all subjects, Pre K-12, administrators, and district curriculum leaders.