Wicoie
Goal 1:Four Teachers Placed. Increase in number of Little Earth and community families served and languages learned in immersion language classrooms. Goal 2: Quality of Teaching Improved: professional development plans completed for four teachers. Volunteers provide school supplies. Goal 3: Teaching Improved Through Community Engagement: complete mini-camps for parents verified by parent exit evaluations for camps; seasonal feasts; and quality of take home lessons for parents. Goal 4: Improved Program Sustainability: Meet with Baby Space and other partners to design and implement a language immersion program. Two MOUs completed with higher education institutions that offer Ojibwe or Dakota classes in a related degree program. Donor base of matching funds created; understanding and support of immersion learning broadly developed.
Goal 1: Progress Indicator: Two early childhood service partners with MOUs will multiply the number of classrooms available and at least double the number of children served. Goal 2 Progress Indicator: Language apprentices (4) complete training; adequate supplies for teachers in the classrooms based on teacher satisfaction surveys. Students gain skills as documented on Rueben Scale. Pre-school testing completed. Goal 3: Progress Indicator: Program Director home visits and interviews with parents on satisfaction with language learning; steps to make changes based on parent satisfaction. Goal 4: Progress Indicator: Surveys, Meeting notes and dates with Baby Space Ed and board/invested partners/parents/caregivers. from Little Earth and/or other potential language partners at the NELC. Meeting notes and dates with higher ed contacts; completed MOUs; students enter Wicoie as language apprentices. Satisfaction surveys completed with recommendations for improvement.
individual donors/tribal/fondations. individual donations via go fund me/give MN/SMDC matching 5,000,00 grant