If you’d like to be part of designing curriculum, with primary sources, to integrate Lakota or Dakota culture, do I ever have an opportunity for you. We are teaming up with the CIRCLES (Cultivating Indigenous Research Communities for Leadership in Education and STEM) Alliance to offer the first workshop of our course Co-designing games on rural and Indigenous history using primary sources on July 21st at Sitting Bull College.
July 21 – July 24 This is part of four days of professional development focused on curricular resource writing. Stipends receive $200 per day, plus travel costs. Graduate credit is available through Minot State University.
Email raymond.burns@minotstateu.edu by July 7 to register.

But wait, there’s more!
After attending the workshop at Sitting Bull, educators who attend two more, virtual sessions and submit a lesson plan can get a second graduate credit, plus an additional $50 stipend. If you cannot attend the four-day PD at Sitting Bull College and would like to just attend the first workshop virtually, you can sign up here.
We will work with educators to create games and lessons teaching Indigenous and rural history using primary sources. Of course, if these lessons included math or science, we would be thrilled. You can see the game developed with the first cohort, Warrior Vets, here.
The second game, You are Here: On the Lewis and Clark Trail was just released today.
Session 1: In-person at Sitting Bull College. Dr. AnnMaria De Mars will demo the latest game about STEM on the Lewis and Clark Trail and give examples of lesson plans using primary sources to teach about Indigenous history, agriculture and mathematics.
Sessions 2 and 3 will be virtual. At session 1, we’ll decide on the dates and times this summer that will be convenient for most attendees. If you have to miss a session due to illness, child illness or your spouse won the Nobel Peace Prize, don’t worry, we will have these recorded and send you links for all activities so you can catch up.