<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); line-height: 10px; "><h1 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: 200; font-style: inherit; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.2em; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Indian Country Today: </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size: 10px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/4dymmb3">http://tinyurl.com/4dymmb3</a></span></font></b></span></h1></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); line-height: 10px; "><p style="margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">A three-day workshop—</span></font><a title="Immersion A-Z: Essential Basics for Language Immersion Programs" href="http://www.wiserearth.org/event/view/719ed39684ce0517efc1daa818d35f3b" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(179, 35, 23); text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Immersion A-Z: Essential Basics for Language Immersion Programs</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">—will be held June 29 to July 1 at the </span></font><a title="University of Arizona" href="http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/03/learn-the-basics-of-language-immersion-programs/www.arizona.edu" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(179, 35, 23); text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">University of Arizona</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">, College of Education Building in Tucson, Arizona for those planning and starting immersion programs.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The workshop provides hands-on experience on language immersion methods, the proven effective way of transmitting language knowledge from one generation to the next in a variety of contexts including at home, in the community, at day care centers, at preschool and head start and at schools.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">“Participants will learn how to design and implement immersion teaching, how to make long range plans for language programs, how to create language activities, how to produce fun and useful materials for language learning, and how to assess the effectiveness of the language immersion program,” according to a press release.</span></font></p><p style="margin-top: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 7px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The registration deadline is April 15 and forms are available online through the </span></font><a title="Indigenous Language Institute registration form" href="http://www.ilinative.org/cilo/CILORegFormImmersionRev2.9.11.pdf" target="_blank" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(179, 35, 23); text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Indigenous Language Institute</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">.</span></font></p></span></div></body></html>