• Becoming Visible: A Landscape Analysis of State Efforts to Provide Native American Education for All

  This report, from the National Congress of American Indians, describes state efforts to bring high-quality educational content about indigenous people and communities into all K-12 classrooms in the United States.

• CREDE Standards for Effective Pedagogy

  The Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE) Hawai’i Project developed the CREDE Standards for Effective Pedagogy for culturally and linguistically diverse students, which includes a rubric to measure the use of these standards.

• Culture-Based Education Curriculum Repository

  The National Indian Education Association’s Culture-Based Education Curriculum Repository serves as a clearinghouse for quality curricula that is respectful of cultural and traditional knowledge and uses innovative instructional strategies to ensure indigenous students succeed.

• Culture-Based Education and Its Relationship to Student Outcomes

  This report, from the Kamehameha Schools Research and Evaluation Division, describes a study indicating that culture-based educational strategies positively impact Hawaiian student outcomes.

• Kalispel Language Immersion School (SnyoyoʔspuʔúsmL)

  Kalispel Language Immersion School (SnyoyoʔspuʔúsmL) is an alternative learning experience that provides funding for state-certified teachers to work one-on-one with students and families. Students receive immersion instruction in science, math, and reading.

• Mathematica’s On the Evidence Podcast: Shift to At-Home and Online Learning Underscores the Importance of Culturally Responsive Education Practices in Schools

  In this episode of Mathematica’s podcast, learn insights on implementing culturally responsive practices from a principal and an education researcher.

• Native American Education For All

  IllumiNative launched its Native American Education For All initiative to deliver free digital lesson plans and activities for distance learning in response to COVID-19. The first phase of the initiative was released in partnership with the National Indian Education Association.

• Native American Parent Technical Assistance Center Library

  This library, developed by the former Native American Parent Technical Assistance Center and hosted by Center for Parent Information Resources, includes materials created for Parent Centers for indigenous culture and outreach to indigenous communities.

• Native Knowledge 360

  Native Knowledge 360, developed by the National Museum of the American Indian, includes resources for teaching and opportunities for professional development.

• Yup’ik First Language Program

  Lower Kuskokwim’s Yup’ik First Language program delivers instruction to students in the heritage language by a certified first-language teacher beginning in kindergarten. The transition to English increases gradually each year at a rate determined by each school’s plan of service.

• Zinn Education Project

  The Zinn Education Project provides classroom resources for educators to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of history than traditional textbooks and curricula.

Download the complete Native Education Resource List.

This category has three demonstrations of effective integration.

1. State policies, programs, and practices advance the inclusion of Native history and culture for all students.
2. State policies, programs, and practices advance the inclusion of Native history and culture in the curriculum for students where tribes are prominent historically or currently.
3. The state encourages and supports the implementation of effective practices of culturally responsive and/or culture-based teaching and assessment.