Ojibwe Language Revitalization Grant
Implement and train on the new scope and sequence model for preschool-early childhood (k-3) for Ojibwe Language Instruction. Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia will provide whole staff training on the new model with follow up Skype sessions. The White Earth Band will also provide opportunities for students to demonstrate language skills to the community.Develop new scope and sequence model with curriculum framework up to fifth grade by the end of the second year of the grant. Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia will provide training to the White Earth staff to become coaches to other White Earth educational sites. Provide printed materials to the K-3 general education classrooms to support language. The grantee will also spend time visiting immersion schools, develop dual language road signs, and to generate public awareness of the Ojibwe language.
Dual sign language road signs! Also, we have distributed the Ojibwemowin flash cards and card games to the participating schools K-3 for their general education classrooms. We have hosted 3 Ojibwemowin Training for our Early Childhood providers, Head Start Staff, Language Teachers. We had 55 attendees on average, and there are four breakout sessions in the afternoons. Staff made materials for their classrooms/sites. They learned songs, worked on reading in Ojibwemowin and techniques to teach two books to their students.