2. Tribally Controlled School: Best Practices and Tools for Success
ROGER C. BORDEAUX, Ed. D.
Wambdi Ob Mani = Walks With Eagles
Wounspe Wawokiya Yuha Mani = Walks and Helps Others in Education

3. History of Tribal Schools Requirements to apply and maintain
BIE Blueprint and re-organization
Recommendations for Sovereignty

4. History BC up to 1966 0 1966 1 1972 – IEA - Establishment grants 15
1972 – IEA - Establishment grants 15
1975 – ISDEAA 60
1988 – TCSA 125
2001 – NCLB - NASIA

5. Requirements to apply and maintain
ISDEAA and TCSA
Plus
NASIA
NCLB – Title I

6. 25 USC Chapter 27 TCSG
§ 2501. Declaration of policy
§ 2502. Grants authorized
§ 2503. Composition of grants
§ 2504. Eligibility for grants
§ 2505. Duration of eligibility determination
§ 2506. Payment of grants; investment of funds
§ 2507. Application with respect to Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
§ 2508. Role of the Director
§ 2509. Regulations
§ 2510. The tribally controlled grant school endowment program
§ 2511. Definitions

7. BIE Blueprint and Re-organization
American Indian Study Group
Blueprint for Reform – effective teachers and principals, agile organization, promote self determination, support through partnership, budget
Secretarial Order 3334 = BIE Implementation Plan – Phase One and Two
Group of 65 recommendations – streamline, TA by tribes, no duplication, BIE not a state, local content and performance standards, NEGREG, MOA, full funding, real consultation, tribal decision on contracting or granting, others

8. Recommendations Grant Support Costs Facilities Operations
Facilities Backlog
Culturally Based Education Culturally-Based Indigenous Language Use, Culturally-Based Pedagogy, Culturally-Based Curriculum, Culturally-Based Patterns of Participation in Leadership and Decision-Making, and Culturally-Based Methods of Assessing Student Performance
CREDE – joint productive activity, language and literacy development, contextualization, complex thinking, instructional conversation, modeling and child directed activity
Creating Sacred Places for Children language and culture, school and community, interactive teaching, performance based, etc. (OERI)

9. Additional Questions?
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