Fiffth American Indian / Indigenous Teacher Education Conference

[Jon Allan Reyhner]

Dear Indigenous Educators:

Pardon for cross Posting, but I want to make sure the following gets out to the widest audience possible:

Northern Arizona University's College of Education is hosting its Fifth American Indian / Indigenous Teacher Education Conference (AIITEC) "Indigenizing Education: Empowering Students, Empowering Communities" on July 10-12, 2014 at its Eastburn Education Building. This conference for preschool, K-12, college, and university educators and concerned community members is designed through panels, workshops, and papers to share ideas for improving the lives and education of Indigenous children. Drs. Joseph Martin and W. Sakiestewa Gilbert, who have been long involved in working to improve Indian education, are co-chairing the conference. Northern Arizona University's College of Education has worked with Indian Nations to improve the education of American Indian students for decades. It has hosted a variety of American Indian teacher and administrative preparation programs, including the well received Learn In Beauty program, and published a number of monographs, including Honoring Our Heritage: Culturally Appropriate Approaches for Teaching Indigenous Students and Honoring Our Children: Culturally Appropriate Approaches for Teaching Indigenous Students. Keynote speakers for this summer's conference include Sandra Fox, 2013 National Indian Education Association Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Terri McCarty, author of A Place to be Navajo: Rough Rock and The Struggle for Self Determination, and Maori educators Tangiwai and Poia Rewi. The early registration and proposal deadline is May 15. For more information go to the American Indian Education web site at http://nau.edu/aie and follow the link to the conference web site. There will be a strand of workshops and presentations at the conference focusing on revitalizing Indigenous languages. Featured speakers include Hopi language activist Sheilah Nicholas and Navajo language activist Jennie DeGroat.

Also, the Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium Steering Committee is still looking for a sponsor for the 22nd SILS for 2015. The Steering Committee wants to congratulate the hosts of the 21st conference held in January at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo for a very successful conference.

For more information about AIITEC or SILS contact Jon Reyhner at Jon.Reyhner at nau.edu

Jon Reyhner, AIITEC Conference Coordinator and
Professor of Bilingual Multicultural Education
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, Arizona 86011
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/