First Light Education Project, LLC

STARTING WITH WHAT WORKS. Research, consulting, & evaluation across dimensions of schooling & education. A Yazzie-Mintz creation.

[First Light Education Project, LLC @FiLiEdProj]

Just published...a special issue of @AICRJournal on Community-Based Inquiry!

Community & university scholars share stories of doing inquiry from within communities.

A truly special journal issue. Fully & freely accessible.

Check it out: https://t.co/7v0jiqbaGK

#GoAndDoMore

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Wicoie Nandagikendan is a Dakota & Ojibwe immersion school in Minneapolis. Join the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC) Institute today at 1 PM MT to hear their vision & journey story!

More info here:
https://t.co/yrXL9dFfOG
Register here:
https://t.co/q3RgS3Deer

[Native News Online @nativenews_net]

New research shows strong Tribal economies create a "spillover" effect, benefiting not just Native communities but also neighboring towns. @TribalBiz has the story.
#TribalEconomy #Native EconomicDevelopment #Indian Country
https://t.co/hz02SO5qeY

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@brockprize @michaelcrow @ASU Congratulations, President @michaelcrow!

@ASU is back in the #BrockPrizehouse!

Our co-founder and principal consultant, Dr Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, ASU alum (B.S. '92, M.Ed. '96), was the 2020 Brock Prize Laureate!

https://t.co/2KjED4YWh6

#ForksUp
#GoSunDevils
#ValleyVictories

[Brock Prize in Education Innovation @brockprize]

Dr. Michael M. Crow is the president of Arizona State University (ASU), where he has made significant contributions in the field of education, including his role in reimagining the university as an institution that is both widely accessible and excellent in all measures.

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“Community-Based Inquiry is really Indigenous inquiry.”

New. Free. Accessible. Spec issue of Am Indian Culture & Research Journal (@AICRJournal) on CBI!

https://t.co/7v0jiqbaGK

4 communities & 4 univ scholars share stories of doing inquiry from w/in communities.

#GoAndDoMore

[Alix Chaytor 💙💜🧡 #FBPA #FBPE #StandWithUkraine @AlixChaytor]

If you’re interested in education, preservation of culture & what can be achieved by communities when they get together to identify & to achieve their needs, you can’t do better than read this!

#CommunityBasedInquiry

[Alix Chaytor 💙💜🧡 #FBPA #FBPE #StandWithUkraine @AlixChaytor]

This is what levelling-up REALLY looks like, @RishiSunak - real communities coming together to identify & work for their real needs, in this case in education.

It’s an excellent read.

#CommunityBasedInquiry

[American Indian Culture and Research Journal @AICRJournal]

Just Published! We could not be more proud of this particular Special Issue on Community-Based Inquiry, a compilation of essays written by Indigenous researchers working inside communities.
https://t.co/iUcvVIeFef

[First Light Education Project, LLC @FiLiEdProj]

Join us on 5/24 for "Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige-babies," convened by our own Dr Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz for the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative Institute & BTC!

Get info & register (free) here:

https://t.co/TvfuQya751

#IELC
@BezosFoundation
@joinvroom

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The Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative Institute is the next step in our work supporting Native communities strengthening education for their earliest learners!

Thank you, @WK_Kellogg_Fdn, for believing in #IELC!

https://t.co/1sZSsUYbaf

Read more:
https://t.co/IeXqdFfxfO

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The #IELC, working w/Native communities since 2021 to strengthen #ECE, is now the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative Institute!

https://t.co/1sZSsUYbaf

Thank you, @WK_Kellogg_Fdn for supporting our work w/@BTCTouchpoints!

Our work continues...

https://t.co/n0yadXpGyb

[Brazelton Touchpoints Center @BTCTouchpoints]

On May 10, 2023, T. Berry Brazelton would have been 105 years old. ! We still miss him. Always will. His brilliance and vision live on in each of us and our work, and in the collective impact we have on children and families. Happy Birthday, Dr. B!

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CONGRATS to our pals, Dr Gerald Campano of @PennGSE & Dr Maria Paula Ghiso of @TeachersCollege, on being awarded the HT Trueba Award today from Div G of @AERA_EdResearch! Their work with CARE in Philadelphia certainly transforms social contexts of education.

#DrTjYM
#GoAndDoMore

[American Indian Culture and Research Journal @AICRJournal]

Please join AICRJ for a live event on April 14, 2pm PST entitled: "I ka wēkiu o Haleakalā: Honoring Haunani-Kay Trask." We celebrate the publication of our first open-access Issue 46, No. 1. Thanks to Mer Young for her art on the cover! Link Forthcoming!

[Dr. John H. Jackson @DrJohnHJackson]

I’m honored to be included among men who are doing so much to shape Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and our country.

[Schott Foundation for Public Education @SchottFound]

This week, our president & CEO @DrJohnHJackson was named one of Boston’s Most Influential Men of Color. Congratulations, John! https://t.co/d5YqAAqPBg

[American Indian Culture and Research Journal @AICRJournal]

In our first Open Access issue (46.1), AICRJ guest editors ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui & Noelani Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua pay homage to the groundbreaking work, “From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai‘I,” by Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask.

[SFaircloth12 @sfaircloth12]

Navajo Tech is the first tribal university to offer a PhD program https://t.co/NTjz6vG4pC

[First Light Education Project, LLC @FiLiEdProj]

"If you want to bring our culture and language back, you need to start with the babies."

The powerful #IELC #Wiikwedong Collaborative is featured here:

https://t.co/xkKyHqCq9x

Check it out!

#EveryChildThrives
@WK_Kellogg_Fdn
@BTCTouchpoints
#StartingWithWhatWorks
#GoAndDoMore