$490,030 for Alaska Pacific
University to expand
its current Rural Alaska Native Adult distance-learning K-8 education
program to reach Native paraprofessionals who are employed in
rural Alaska schools that are included in the Quality Schools
Initiative.
$520,000 to the Southeast
Regional Resource Center
for ANSWER Camps which will provide a series of two-week summer
retreats to meet the critical need for culturally relevant reading,
writing, science, and math enrichment activities for seventh
and eight grade students in rural Alaska.
$528,423 to the University
of Alaska Fairbanks
to collect, record, transcribe and translate elders' stories
and Alaska Native games, and create a CD-ROM of elders' demonstrating
subsistence activities. From these stories two children's illustrated
storybooks in Yup'ik and English will be created.
$680,994 to the Yupiit
School District for
the Elitnaurutait Yupii project which will provide all Yupiit
School District students with curricula grounded in Yup'ik culture
and enriched educational opportunities that meet the needs to
help them perform at high levels on state-required standardized
tests.
$497,613 to the Juneau School
District for the K-3
Tlingit Culture and Language Program which aims to improve the
education and academic performance of Alaska Native students
in Juneau.
$268,813 for the Tanadgusix
Corporation for the
Pribilof Tech-Prep Program which aims to provide critical academic
support for students, essential instructional support for educational
professionals, and real-life vocational technology training for
students and adults.
$269,128 to the Hoonah City
School District for
Parents are Teachers (PAT) which offers services delivered
by local parent educators who live permanently within the community.
The goal of PAT is to enable all parents to be the first educators
of their children.
$353,168 to the Craig City
School District for
the CANCAT project which will make available a mathematics resource
teacher throughout the instructional day for academically at-risk
children and young people and their adult caregivers, so they
can work together more effectively on mathematics skills and
to provide parenting education, childcare, and transportation
to increase adult caregivers' effectiveness as one-on-one mathematics
coaches.
$540,300 to the University
of Alaska Fairbanks for the Aurora Alive Math and Science
Program which will provide more than 1,500 seventh and eights
grade Athabascan and Inupiaq students in 33 villages in the Bering
Strait School District and Yukon River watershed with a comprehensive
math and science program.
$163,223 to the Kuspuk School
District for their
Family Literacy Program which provides family-centered education
and intervention to improve literacy among parents and their
children by enhancing access to and opportunities for education
in low-income families.
$455,806 to the Juneau School
District for a summer
camp, school year support network, and a series of after school
activities
$590,000 to the Chugach
School District for the Voyage to Excellence Program which
aims to prepare students for transitions to the world of work
through career awareness and job-shadowing opportunities, service
learning, hands-on entrepreneurial experience, and the incorporation
of work-related situations across the academic curriculum.
$560,000 to the Southwest
Region School District
for a reading program that will serve 722 students in nine rural,
isolated villages. This program will address early reading skills
for students in grades K-6 and provide remediation for struggling
readers in grades seven through twelve.
$500,371 to the Matanuska-Susitna
Borough School District
for the Dzuggi Early Childhood Education Program, a community-based
developmental program that provides early childhood development
and education for children up to age five.
$520,648 to the University
of Alaska Fairbanks
for the Rural Educator Preparation Partnership Program to increase
the number of Alaska Native Teachers.
$430,000 to the University
of Alaska for the Alaska
Teacher Placement Program in partnership with the Alaska Federation
of Natives and three rural school districts.
$389,465 to the Southcentral
Foundation for the
Young Families Project to enhance the quality and quantity of
services provided to young children and their families in Anchorage,
including Early Head Start and Head Start Programs.
$508,900 to Galena City
Schools to focus on
building and sustaining assets or protective factors in Alaska
Native students attending residential boarding schools.
$119,472 for the University
of Alaska Anchorage
for Project Success which will prepare over 70 rural Alaska Native
educators to work with Alaska Native children, particularly those
with disabilities, by increasing access to and success in well-established,
distance delivered Associate Degree programs.
$500,450 to the Dillingham
City School District
for the Alternative Education Outreach Program which aims to
reduce and eliminate the cycle of self-destruction and provide
skills to Native Alaskans Youth who have dropped out of the school
system and have entered the juvenile justice system.
$547,306 to Bethel Community
Services (BCS) to implement
a Socio-Emotional Competencies for Early Learning Program combining
the experience and expertise of two programs that serve rural
Alaska (the BCS Family Infant Toddler Program and the Rural Alaska
Community Action Program) to meet infant mental health needs.
$540,600 to the Kodiak Island
Borough School District
for a career development program that includes rigorous academic
instruction, career guidance, intense hands-on instruction and
opportunities for on-the-job experiences regardless of school
site.
$412,500 to the Central
Council Tlingit and Haida Tribes
for Creating Cultural Foundations, a home-based preschool service
which uses new technologies to share Native and other traditions,
skills, and strategies in supporting Head Start staff to provide
appropriate services for children and families in Southeast Alaska.
$410,227 to the Mount Sanford
Tribal Consortium to
produce new instructional films and booklets from footage of
Elders in their homes and at the annual Batzulnetas Culture Camp
as they teach traditional practices.
$467,772 to the Sealaska
Heritage Institute
to develop curricula, lesson plans, and teaching materials for
Haida language immersion classes tailored to kindergarten, and
the first and second grades.
$483,034 to the Northwest
Arctic Borough School District
to improve the reading, writing, and mathematics skills of 1,990
low-achieving Alaska Native students in grades K-12 through an
after school remediation program which delivers instructional
programs designed using scientifically based research.
$195,643 to Illisagvik College to recruit students across the North
Slope, specifically those interested in Teacher Aide positions,
into its Associate of Arts Degree Program.
$640,147 to the Village
of Kotzebue for Nikaitchuat
Ilisagviat, a preschool through sixth grade Inupiaq immersion
school, to develop curriculum which will allow students to learn
more advanced vocabulary and concepts in Inupiaq, while also
covering the knowledge base needed for students to make a comfortable
transition into an English speaking school.
$318,371 to the University
of Fairbanks for the
Kitsuuit Program which provides culturally relevant education
in early childhood development to allow Native students, who
are also the Head Start teachers, to remain in their community
while taking courses.
$544,000 to the Cook Inlet
Tribal Council, Inc.
for the Media Educational Development Institute of Alaska to
provide career preparation in the field of media to Alaska Native
students enrolled in the Partners for Success drop-out prevention
program.
$554,396 to the Association
of Interior Native Educators
for the Learning Styles Center that provides training to teachers,
paraprofessionals, and administrators through Alaska's Interior.
The center will also develop curriculum that is culturally relevant
to Alaska Natives in the Interior.
$548,164 to the Northwest
Arctic Borough School District
to prepare children under the age of five for entry into the
educational system, increase parental involvement in their children's
learning, and improve district resources for parent and early
childhood education.
