Dreamstarter Teacher Jonna Weidaw: Connect native youth with cultural leaders
Jonna Weidaw of Lakeport, California is a teacher of “all subjects” in a single room schoolhouse at the Lakeport Community Day School in the Lakeport Unified School District teaching members of the Pomo, Cherokee, Elem and Miwok tribes. “As an educator I believe that every student deserves a school program in which their culture and […]
Dreamstarter Teacher John Twichel: Bringing ROV’s to the native classroom
John Twichel of Sault St. Marie, Michigan, is a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) teacher at Sault Area Middle School serving students of the Tribe of the Chippewa Indians. John, a previous Dreamstarter teacher grant recipient, used his $1,000 Dreamstarter Teacher grant to purchase technology hardware to enable 150 students to build, maintain and […]
