Preparing the Future Guardians of the Language: The Dine Dual Language Teachers Project

• In Event: Innovative Dual-Language Education Teacher Professional Development

Abstract

What is the place of stories of our families, and communities? What does it mean to negotiate our place within the world of traditional stories told by our elders in the hogan and between worlds in the classroom? We respond as former classroom teachers and as current teacher educators in the Diné Dual Language Teachers Project at Northern Arizona University. To understand these questions, we engage in conversations with teachers at two schools: Puente de Hozho Bilingual Magnet School in Flagstaff and the Window Rock Unified School District.

Authors

• Louise Lockard, Northern Arizona University

• Velma M. Hale, Northern Arizona University, Dine' College, Fielding Graduate University