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Careers, Culture, and Leadership are the core tenets of the Kusilvak Career Academy (KCA), a program for 11th and 12th-grade students in...

<p>Careers, Culture, and Leadership are the core tenets of the Kusilvak Career Academy (KCA), a program for 11th and 12th-grade students in the Lower Yukon School District (LYSD).   In 2019, the LYSD School board and district leadership sought to help close the equity gap between rural and urban students and how they received their career&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/06/24/lysds-kusilvak-career-academy/">Continue Reading &#821

<p>Each school day at 1pm, four elders make their way up the ramp at Nuniwarmiut School. Upon entering the building, they turn right and walk past the pre-school room. They stop by the office to greet the secretary and the principal and make their way down the hallway past the junior high and high school&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/06/04/cpqe/">Continue Reading &#8216;An Extraordinarily Significant Undertaking that No One Els

The CPQE Translation Team Each school day at 1pm, four elders make their way up the ramp at Nuniwarmiut School. Upon entering the...

<p>Children absolutely love learning and studying anything having to do with animals. They are more focused and tuned in to the learning process visually and auditorily and are excited to learn more with photos, videos, text, sound, conversation, and dialogue with the introduction to the topic. At Davis-Ramoth School in Selawik, Alaska in Northwest Arctic&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/04/30/kinesthetic-and-authentic-learning-th

Children absolutely love learning and studying anything having to do with animals. They are more focused and tuned in to the learning...

<p>In Prince William Sound and several other regions in Alaska, kelp farming is a budding, regenerative industry, adding to the vibrancy of working waterfronts. I am a fourth grade teacher at Mt. Eccles Elementary School in the Cordova City School District and also a kelp farmer. My husband and I started Noble Ocean Farms in&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/04/05/kelp-in-cordova-classrooms/">Continue Reading &#8216;Kelp in Cordova

In Prince William Sound and several other regions in Alaska, kelp farming is a budding, regenerative industry, adding to the vibrancy of...

Everyone deserves to live the healthiest life possible, but health and well-being depend on many factors. Our individual health is...

<p>Everyone deserves to live the healthiest life possible, but health and well-being depend on many factors. Our individual health is impacted by the health of our community, the health of animals and the health of the environment. This holistic approach of recognizing the interdependence of human, animal, and environmental health is a collaborative and transdisciplinary&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/03/20/one-health-onward-upw

<p>In the Bering Strait School District (BSSD), fifty-four students from Wales, Golovin and Teller participated in a Cultural Week at Kingikmiut School in Wales, Alaska. This was the first time these small schools teamed up for this particular event, and it was a huge success.</p>

In the Bering Strait School District (BSSD) , fifty-four students from Wales, Golovin and Teller participated in a Cultural Week at...

See Stories was founded as a nonprofit in 2019 by a dedicated and diverse Board on the premise that representation matters, that Alaskan...

<p>&nbsp; See Stories was founded as a nonprofit in 2019 by a dedicated and diverse Board on the premise that representation matters, that Alaskan youth are uniquely equipped to share authentic local histories through film making and podcasting, and that empowering youth with media literacy is a vital skill in today’s world. See Stories leads&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/02/26/seestories/">Continue Reading &#8216;SeeStories: S

<p>This month, the Alaska Council of School Administrators (ACSA) hosted the 9th Annual &#8216;Alaska&#8217;s Heart Through Student Art&#8217; reception. The event, held in Juneau at the the Andrew P. Kashevaroff State Museum, is an annual statewide celebration and auction of student art from Alaska&#8217;s 53 school districts. Legislators, statewide educational leaders, teachers, and student artists&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/20

This month, the Alaska Council of School Administrators (ACSA) hosted the 9th Annual ‘Alaska’s Heart Through Student Art’ reception. The...

<p>A recently converted storage space in Buckland School in the Northwest Arctic Borough School District.  Principal Cherita Williams spent part of the summer of 2023 prepping a new library space in order to promote literacy, and even more importantly, a love of books and reading in her school. When Principal Williams arrived in Buckland School,&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/02/09/is-it-library-time/">Continue Reading ‘Is It Li

A recently converted storage space in Buckland School in the Northwest Arctic Borough School District.  Principal Cherita Williams spent...

<p>When the Alaska Council of School Administrators (ACSA) first started the work of blogging about the great things happening in classrooms and schools across Alaska five years ago we wanted to balance the dialogue about education in our state. It can be so easy to get stuck in the logistics of how schools are funded&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://ouralaskanschools.edublogs.org/2024/01/31/five-years-of-celebrating-the-stories-of-alaskas-incredible-education-commu

When the Alaska Council of School Administrators (ACSA) first started the work of blogging about the great things happening in...