POSITIVE INDIAN PARENTING

Positive Indian Parenting: Honoring our Children by Honoring our Traditions

Positive Indian Parenting draws on the cultural strengths of Native American child rearing. The material in this curriculum has been developed through extensive consultation with tribal elders, Native American social welfare professionals and parents. The result is a curriculum that provides Native American parent trainers with information on how to conduct and organize parent training, background reading on traditional and modern parenting, lesson plans, handouts, and exercises. Focused on the positive values of the traditional ways as a model, the curriculum seeks to help parents decide for themselves what kind of parenting they want to use. 

The curriculum is divided into eight sessions requiring two to three hours each. The material suggests a philosophy for parent trainers and promotes respect, family unity, and pride in our traditional ways. 

Session I: Traditional Parenting
Session II: Lessons of the Storyteller
Session III: Lessons of the Cradleboard
Session IV: Harmony in Child Rearing
Session V: Traditional Behavior Management
Session VI: Lessons of Mother Nature
Session VII: Praise in Traditional Parenting
Session VIII: Choices in Parenting

For more information on Positive Indian Parenting contact Diane Smith at 1-800-551-0969 or email Diane at Diane.Smith@llojibwe.com.

"In the Spirit of the Child" Native American Early Childhood Professionals come together in a one of a kind effort to preserve and revitalize language of the Dakota and Ojibwe throughout the state of Minnesota. 

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A TRIBAL GUIDE TO GOOD START, GROW SMART
BACKGROUND

In 2001 Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, the Bush Administration’s Education Reform Bill. This Act drew attention to the need for young children to be given the opportunity to learn fundamental skills that will prepare them for success in school.

The Good Start, Grow Smart (GSGS) Initiative was introduced by the Bush Administration in April 2002 as the next step in education reform. The goal of the Initiative is to ensure that young children are equipped with the skills they will need to start school ready to learn. The Initiative focuses on strengthening Head Start; partnering with States to improve early learning; and providing parents, teachers, and caregivers with information on early learning.

The Child Care Bureau (CCB) has been focusing on three key areas within the Good Start, Grow Smart Initiative:

• Early Learning Guidelines (ELGs)
  
• Professional Development Plans 
• Program Coordination

A framework for understanding and communicating a common set of developmentally appropriate expectations for young children approximately four years old, presented within a context of shared responsibility and accountability for helping children meet these expectations. 

More information at: www.dhs.state.mn.us
Click here to view the Early Childhood Indicators of Progress online

More info at: http://www.mnpdcouncil.org/Core/index.html

ENVIRONMENTAL RATING SCALE

There are four environmental rating scale books. 
They are published by Teachers College Press and are available at Red Leaf Press.