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General

For prior event recordings please visit the Native Language Playlist

NAL@ED Talking Circle – January 2023 In this talking circle grantees shared what they would like to see in the upcoming Project Directors meeting and discussed their language assessment practices.

NAL@ED New Grantee Budget Workshop This workshop was for new NAL@ED Grantees to discuss managing their grant budgets.

NAL@ED New Grantee Orientation

This orientation session was for new NAL@ED grantees to meet their program officer and get prepared for their new grant.

NAL@ED Talking Circle – October 2022

This talking circle welcomed new grantees, allowed all grantees to share about their programs, and discussed APR updates and budget revisions.

NAL@ED Talking Circle – August 2022

This NAL@ED Talking Circle discussed annual performance report feedback, FAQs, APR updates, budget revisions, and program best practices.

NAL@ED Talking Circle – June 2022 This NAL@ED Talking Circle provided a recap of the recent Project Directors Meeting and discussed culture-based education.

Promising Program Showcases

NAL@ED Promising Practices Showcase: Part 3 – September 2020 This showcase is the third installment in the NAL@ED Promising Program series highlighting Native language programs in Montana and Hawaii and NAL@ED grantees in Alaska and Wisconsin.

NAL@ED Promising Practices Showcase: Part 2 – September 2019 This showcase is part two in the NAL@ED Promising Program series highlighting Native language programs in Montana and Hawaii.

NAL@ED Promising Practices Showcase: Part 1 – April 2019 This showcase is the first in the NAL@ED Promising Program series highlighting Native language programs in Montana and Hawaii.

Distance Learning

Distance Learning Session 12: Virtual Share Fair – June 2021 This distance learning session provided an opportunity for grantee’s virtual learning programs to be highlighted and best practices and challenges to be shared. This session culminated the distance learning series for this year.

Distance Learning Session 11: Student Engagement – May 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for increasing online student engagement through effective interactions and student choice featuring Google Keep, Edublogs, Book Creator, Spreaker, and Google Sites.

Distance Learning Session 10: Games and More! – May 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating virtual games featuring Doozy, Flippity, Tiny Tap, Oodlü, and Goosechase.

Distance Learning Session 9: Virtual Field Trips – April 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating and engaging students in online field trips featuring a multitude of resources for ready made field trips and custom created by you field trips.

Distance Learning Session 8: Small Group Engagement – April 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for engaging students in small groups focusing on social, logistical, and motivational considerations.

Distance Learning Session 7: Virtual Assessment – March 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for assessing learning virtually featuring Kahoot, Flipgrid, and Formative.

Distance Learning Session 6: Audio and Video Recording – March 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating audio and video recordings featuring Vocaroo, Screencastify, Screencast-o-matic, Animoto, and Zoom.

Distance Learning Session 5: Collaborating Online – February 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for collaborating virtually with students and staff featuring Edmodo and Google Classroom.

Distance Learning Session 4: Engaging Students Offline – February 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for engaging students offline featuring the Yukon Koyukuk School District.

Distance Learning Session 3: Communicating With Students and Families – January 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for effective virtual communication with families and students featuring Bloomz, ClassDojo, and Remind.

Distance Learning Session 2: Surveys and Forms – January 2021 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating and using surveys and forms featuring Google Forms and Survey Monkey.

Distance Learning Session 1: Platforms – December 2020 This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for using online learning platforms featuring Zoom and Google Meet.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 12: More Virtual Learning Resources This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for more ways to engage students and families online featuring Virtual Field Trips, Scavenger Hunts, Real World Math, Google Lens, Socratic, Teaching Tolerance, StoryCorps, and the Global Oneness Project.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 11: Virtual Assessment This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for assessing students virtually featuring Formative, Socrative, and Mentimeter.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 10: Family Engagement This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for engaging and supporting families virtually featuring Google Voice, Remind, and Class Dojo.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 9: Tips and Tools for Starting the New Year This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for starting the school year virtually including structure and consistency, soft starts and feedback, building rapport, and battling burnout; and featuring Headspace, Google Forms, Padlet, Bitmoji, and Go Noodle.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 8: Game Creation This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for creating online games featuring Doozy, Kahoot, and Flippity.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 7: Student Engagement Tools This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for engaging students online featuring Vocaroo, Seesaw, and Flipgrid.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 6: Audio/Video Recording This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for audio and video recording featuring Screencastify, Screen-Cast-O-Matic, Zoom, and Animoto.

NAL@ED Group Coaching Session 5: Online Learning Platforms This distance learning session provides a walkthrough, tips, and strategies for using online learning platforms featuring Zoom and Google Meet.

Curriculum and Instruction

NAL@ED Second Language Instructional Strategies Webinar – March 2020 This webinar discusses best practices and strategies for second language instruction featuring Dr. Elizabeth Kickham and Dr. Mimi Met.

NAL@ED Culture-based Education Webinar – August 2019 This webinar discusses best practices and strategies for culture-based education.

NAL@ED Curriculum and Assessment Webinar – May 2018 This webinar discussed best practices in creating Native language curriculum and assessments featuring Dr. Kū Kahakalau and Dr. Martin Reinhardt.

Assessment

NAL@ED Assessment Webinar: Part 2 – January 2019 This webinar discusses best practices in Native language assessment featuring Dr. Kū Kahakalau and Dr. Margaret Malone. This is the second of two parts.

NAL@ED Assessment Webinar: Part 1 – January 2019 This webinar discusses best practices in Native language assessment featuring Dr. Kū Kahakalau and Dr. Margaret Malone. This is the first of two parts.

Logic Models and Data-Driven Decision Making

Data Sharing Agreements – October 2021 This webinar walked through important considerations for developing collaborative partnerships and developing data sharing agreements including a general data sharing agreement template.

Day 3: Data-Driven Decision Making – June 2021 The third session introduced the concept of data-driven decision making, how to integrate this into program planning and implementation, and how it works with logic models and evaluation.

Day 2: Logic Models – June 2021 The second session in this three part series provided an opportunity to work through creating a logic model and how the logic model fits into program evaluation.

Day 1: Logic Models – June 2021 The first session in this three part series provided an introduction to logic models, walks through how to create one, and provides a number of models and templates.

Trauma and Resiliency

Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: Part 1 An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. This is Part 1 of a two-part series.

Trauma and Resilience in Tribal Communities: Part 2 An introduction to research on trauma as it relates to AI/AN people and tribal communities, including trauma types, brain science, developmental and behavioral effects, and the interconnected nature of historical and current traumas. Also includes practice scenarios and significant attention to resilience strategies. This is Part 2 of a two-part series.