Powerpoint on support for American Indian and Alaskan Native Teachers.

American Indians and Alaskan Natives (AI/AN) are considered valuable stewards of their homelands and are the least represented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)disciplines resulting in insufficient numbers of skilled AI/AN to manage valuable resources in uncertain times.

• Proposed curriculum develops a geographical cultural context to place STEM knowledge to increase interest in middle to high school AI/AN children. 
• Concentrate on educators because they are the foundation for any sustainable workforce strategy. We define AI/AN Educators as educators of students of AI/AN origin; or serving substantial populations of AI/AN students.
• Focus is creating a malleable sustainable effective support structure and tools for educators already working in the classroom who are willing to work with CMOP in content delivery and in inquiry based learning experiences.  And meet requirement of inclusion of AI/AN history in curriculum of OR and WA public schools.
• The Oregon American Indian and Alaskan Native State Plan of 2006 ensures support to the progress of 11,900 AI/AN students of Oregon, along with the legislative support of Executive Order of 96-30 State/Tribal Government to Government Relations of 1996 that provides for additional involvement between the tribes and the State of Oregon.
  

• Stephanie Kelley, Grant Law, and Elizabeth Woody work on a three year environmental science curriculum, with each year containing separate nine one week unitsinserted once a month for the school year.
• The final product will be multi-dimensional and exportable to other educational institutions with supporting activities to be developed in English, Math, Traditional Arts, and other courses, as needed.
• Year one has already been implemented and tasks for development include: Curriculum draft refinement with state and national science standards the curriculum covered.
• Evaluation of student work and achievement for the year, and every year. Bayta Maring from the Office of Educational Assessment,  University of Washington is coordinating this effort.
  
• Create a detailed curriculum plan for the second and third year.