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This is what it looks like when teachers affirm their students’ heritage

by Anna Baldwin on September 20, 2016 in Blog • 3 Comments

It’s a weekday in mid-September, and most of the students on my reservation are out of school for the day. This free time for students is business as usual for teachers and administrators, who honor a gentleman’s agreement to attend the teacher training day provided by the Tribal Education Department of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. These tribes reside… Read more →

Walking in two worlds: How I learned to humble myself and become an effective reservation teacher

by Anna Baldwin on August 1, 2016 in Blog • 1 Comment

As a brand new teacher, I thought I had the tools I needed to teach any students, any place I found a job. But it only took a month for me in my first licensed teaching position at Two Eagle River School, a tribal alternative school on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, to learn that I was woefully underprepared to… Read more →

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