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<br>Article by: STEVE BRAND, Star Tribune, January 21, 2012
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<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Paul Bownik admits that, as a Polish kid from the North Side, he may
not be the obvious guy to infuse a classroom of 25 mostly Indian kids
with the Dakota and Ojibwe tongues of their forebears.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Yet despite Bownik's roots in a far different culture, his classroom
is what educators describe as language-rich, from the numbers in Dakota
and Ojibwe on the wall to the way that Bownik weaves native words and
phrases into everyday tasks, such as getting coats before bus time.</font></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>In its bid to raise dismal school outcomes for Indian students, the
Minneapolis School District is staking money and staff on techniques
such as those that Bownik and fellow teachers employ at mostly native
Anishinabe Academy.</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The district and Indian leaders this month approved a new five-year
agreement with specific student achievement goals, which is a change
from their first such pact. The latest agreement came just as Gov. Mark
Dayton and Indian educators pledged at a summit to work together on
improving Indian education statewide.</p><br><font>Access full article at: <a href="http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/137830763.html">http://www.startribune.com/local/minneapolis/137830763.html</a><br><br><br>
Related article:<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><font><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><a style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" href="http://tcdailyplanet.tumblr.com/post/15242520364/relationships-built-from-scratch-minneapolis-public" target="_blank">Relationships built from scratch: Minneapolis Public Schools and American Indian community members sign new agreement</a></b></font><font> <br>
<br>Article by: Alleen Brown, Twin Cities Daily Planet, January 3, 2012<br></font>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>For decades, American Indians have not trusted schools, and why would
they? American Indian kids went to boarding school to unlearn language
and culture. Indian schools were established to make sure the Indian
community wouldn’t get to teach. As Minneapolis Indian Education
director Danielle Grant put it, “Education was something that was
happening to us.”</font></p>
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>In January, the Minneapolis school district will sign a revised
Memorandum of Agreement, renewing a 2006 commitment
by the Metro Urban Indian Directors and Minneapolis Public Schools to
work together at changing those old dynamics. The agreement is likely
the only one like it in the nation.</font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Access full article at: <a href="http://tumblr.com/ZPUwOxECXcSi" target="_blank">http://tumblr.com/ZPUwOxECXcSi</a></font></p>
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