Teaching Resources

In this video from 2017, Shayla Yellowhair, systems leader and Teach For America alumna explains why teachers who are coming to work in Native communities need to first understand the history and be willing to learn from the community.

This exercise invites us to contemplate and reflect on the underlying purposes of our education systems.

Explore ways in which constructivism can contribute to fostering learning.

In this exercise, you will reflect on the purpose of 3 different education systems and what success looks like in those systems as well as the roles teachers play.

In this article from 2019, Steven Farr shares two experiences: a dinner with a Navajo family describing their love for a school he found wanting and a classroom visit with a Navajo teacher who challenges his suggesting that her students be prepared f...