Learn In Person ... Or Online

The Montana History Conference is fast approaching, September 26-28, in Helena. If you are within an easy drive, I encourage you to register for the Thursday educator workshop or the entire three-day conference. The educator workshop will feature elementary resources in the morning, including our new resources for teaching Montana geography, one of the new Lewis and Clark lesson plans, and the Montana State Symbols footlocker. In the afternoon, we'll be learning how to find primary source resources on Montana Memory, the Digital Public Library of America, and Montana Newspapers. (These are all extraordinary sites, and training in how to search them will reduce your frustration and up your likelihood of success a thousand fold.) We'll also be sharing some new upper-grade Indian Education resources. Come join us!


The Western Montana Professional Learning Collaborative is offering a new online moodle course, Current Events in Indian Country: An inquiry-based Approach, September 30, 2019-December 15, 2019. Participants will learn inquiry-based teaching and learning strategies to use in their classrooms. Each participant will apply these strategies to explore a contemporary American Indian issue as part of a class-wide inquiry, and an additional American Indian issue of his or her choosing for the free-inquiry portion. This course requires participants to be self-directed and highly motivated, a background in inquiry or American Indian issues is not necessary.

• Registration fee: $335
• Credit: 45 OPI Renewal Units or 3 Semester Credits pending for an additional fee of $155. 

They are also offering a self-paced online course, IEFA Special Topics, composed of five distinct units, each the equivalent of 1 University credit or 15 OPI renewal units. Upon registration, participants select which units/how many credits they wish to take. See website for pricing.
The five units included in Course One are:
1) Who Will Tell My Brother?: The Indian Mascot Controversy
2) Honoring Native Women’s Voices
3) American Indian Short Stories
4) American Indian Poetry
5) Biographies of Native Americans: Contemporary and Historic