Dreamstarter Teacher Autumn Adams – Incorporating art into the classroom
Autumn Adams of Ronan, Montana is a reading and social studies teacher at Ronan Middle School where she teaches Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes members. In her Dreamstarter Teacher application, Autumn had told us that her school recently lost its art programs “which will have a devastating impact on our students. “As a result, I […]
Dreamstarter Teacher LoriAnne Adams – Students make “Keys of Love for our Native Veterans”
LoriAnne Adams of Wapato, Washington, is an Indian Education Counselor at Simcoe Elementary School on the Yakama Nation Reservation which has 100 percent free and reduced lunch student body population. LoriAnne’s idea was “Keys of Love for our Native Veterans”, and she used her $1,000 Dreamstarter Teacher grant to purchase supplies such as bone and […]
Dreamstarter Teacher John Price: School Assembly, and students, teach Catawba History
John Price of Rock Hill, South Carolina, is an 8th-grade social studies teacher at Castle Heights Middle School serving the Catawba Nation whose goal is to establish an enrichment class exclusively for Native American students. “The purpose of my Dreamstarter Teacher Project was to create a Native American Enrichment program that would address the academic, […]
Dreamstarter Teacher Ceriss Blackwood: 1st and 3rd Graders Go Solar!
Dreamstarter Teacher Ceriss Blackwood of Ignacio, Colorado, is a 1st-3rd grade teacher at the Southern Ute Indian Montessori Academy (SUIMA), part of the Southern Ute Indian Tribe school district, which emphasizes tribal culture and language and places a high value on lifelong learning. Ceriss used her grant to begin an afterschool STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, […]
