About this PD

Do you and your colleagues need foundational information when teaching about Native Peoples? In this Professional Development session, educators will learn about the National Museum of the American Indian’s educational initiative, Native Knowledge 360°. Components of this Professional Development for K-12 grade educators include a focus on land acknowledgements, best practices regarding terminology when referring to Native Americans, and a critical reflection of commonly told false and incomplete narratives and ways to teach more complete narratives about Native people in your classrooms.

In the third professional development session of this four-part series, educators will explore the online lesson American Indian Removal: What Does It Mean to Remove a People and identify how the lesson reveals more complete narratives about the scope, scale, and legacy of American Indian removal. Educators will engage with a case study of the Potawatomi Nation to learn how to use this online resource in their classrooms, including ways to teach students about the resilience of Native nations today.