Teaching Teachers: Decolonizing and Indigenizing

High AIMS is a consortium of 30 public school districts in southwest Ohio. Fairfield City Schools will serve as this year’s host to 2,000+ educators for our 6th annual Summer Institute. Programming offered two nationally acclaimed keynote speakers and 250 breakout sessions as teachers and administrators immerse themselves in dynamic and inspiring professional learning.

Native Americans Changing the Narrative:

How we teach Indigenous histories and cultures is undergoing profound changes. Increase your ability to give students better cultural awareness, histories, and the ability to think critically about what they read and hear about Native Peoples. Learn to correct stereotypes in literature and supplement information in standards and textbooks; offer more accurate historical and contemporary representations of Native Peoples. Resources, video clips, curricula, leveled reading lists, Pre K-12. Pair with Session 2. Gifted PD, Competencies B, C. Interactive, brief model lessons. Suited for teachers of all subjects, Pre K-12, administrators, and district curriculum leaders.

and Native Americans Diving into Curriculum:

Implementing concepts from Session 1, learn to present better Native histories and contemporary representations of Indigenous Peoples, develop critical thinking lesson extensions, and develop better classroom libraries. Resources, video clips, curricula, leveled reading lists, Pre K-12. Gifted PD, Competencies B, C. Interactive, brief model lessons. Suited for teachers of all subjects, Pre K-12, administrators, and district curriculum leaders.

Standing in solidarity with Mauna Kea, Ku Kia’i Mauna! All while teaching decolonization to teachers. 8/1/19