With funding from the Sealaska Heritage Institute, the program will add a fourth classroom in the fall, for sixth and seventh graders. They also plan to add eighth grade students in 2024.
Juneau students in the Tlingit Culture, Language and Literacy program perform before the ribbon cutting of the Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff Library, Archives and Museum on June 6, 2016.
“Families who have fourth graders or fifth graders were like ‘Oh my gosh, this kid can’t think of better news,’” she said. With funding from the Sealaska Heritage Institute, the program will add a fourth classroom in the fall, for sixth and seventh graders. The grant will pay for two new classroom teachers and one Lingít teacher.Box said that in time, the program will teach other school subjects in Lingít as well.
Jamie Shanley, SHI’s program manager for the language program, said the funding includes training for teachers to help make that possible. “If our language is not part of the standard, then we need to reject the standard and say, ‘Okay, well, that might be something that you’re measuring for someone else,” he said. “But don’t use that tool of measurement for children who are invested in and families who are invested in making sure our language is still around.’”
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