Honoring Native American Culture with Kara Four Bear Transformative Principal 109

Kara is an assistant principal at Edwin Lowe Elementary in New Town North Dakota.

• Her generation doesn’t feel that people are coming in to take away their culture.
• There’s nothing we can’t learn from each other.
• How to help kids choose to be in education: Be that outstanding teacher!
• Having authentic conversations.
• History of Indian Education in America.
• Boarding schools were opened up. Goal was to assimilate the natives.
• Have to be willing to learn to respect their culture.
• Pow-Wows are very vital.
• Community
• Being fair, being willing to learn from others.
• To help students, you need to have a good relationship.
• Pair people up with support staff.
• Providing resources for students as they are growing and developing.
• Mediators help bridge the gap.
• How paraprofessionals can help. They need lots of training.
• In the eyes of the student, there is not much difference between paraprofessionals and teachers.
• How to be a transformative principal: Maintain work-life balance, be authentic and have authentic conversations.
• Expect teachers to be accountable for their work.
• Twitter is a educational toolbox.

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