Indigenous Roots Teacher Education
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) College of Education and Human Sciences and its consortium partners Little Priest Tribal College and the Nebraska Department of Education have been awarded a four-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Indian Education. The Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program (ROOTS) prepares American Indian paraprofessionals to become certified elementary education and bilingual teachers employed in Nebraska's reservation schools.

ROOTS is a four-year program that will recruit and train a cohort of American Indian students living in or near Santee, Winnebago, Walthill, and Macy communities in Northeastern Nebraska to become teachers certified in Elementary Education (K-8) and ESL (K-12).

The overall outcome of ROOTS will be stronger educational programs for American Indian students in the target communities and greater academic success for American Indian students overall.

"More and more I have to admire resilience. Not the simplest resistance of a pillow, whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another. A blind intelligence, true. But out of such persistence arose turtles, rivers, mitochondria, figs--all this resinous, unretractable earth."
-- Jane Hirschfield, "Optimism"

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