Our name has changed from the Office of Indian Education Programs, OIEP, to the Bureau of Indian Education, BIE.

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The BIE has responsibility for 184 elementary and secondary schools
and dormitories as well as 24 colleges, and our Bureau-operated Haskell
Indian Nations University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute.
Our post-secondary institutions, schools and dormitories are located on
63 reservations in 23 states across the United States serving
approximately 60,000 students representing 238 different tribes.

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Xiwasan sutixa’ is Aymara for ‘this is our name’  – and there is a new name in the OLE family: OLE Bolivia. Under the gifted leadership of Yamandu (Yama) Ploskonka, OLE has hit the ground running in this South American country!

While formal incorporation of a national OLE is in progress with recruitment of a national board of directors, Yama has brought together a team of local volunteers to translate the Sugar computer interface used in the XOi computers from One Laptop Per Child (OLPCi) into Aymara, the language spoken by over two million Bolivians. During the weekend of September 13-14 the team worked through a 25-hour-long marathon session on this important project. . A further translation project will allow OLE members to use the Course Development Studio and access the Billion Kids Library in Aymara.

One Laptop Per Child/South Carolina is a statewide partnership between the South Carolina Department of Education and the non-profit Palmetto Project.

More information at:  http://laptopsc.org/

Conforming Learners like routine, structure, supportive relationships, and stability. They generally are more compliant and will more passively accept knowledge, store it, and reproduce it to conform, complete assigned tasks (if they can) and often please and help others. These learners typically prefer to leave the holistic, critical, or analytical thinking to others.

More information at: http://training.trainingplace.com/loq/pop_conf1.htm

Performing Learners ...are generally self-motivated in learning situations that particularly interest them, otherwise they may seek extrinsic rewards for accomplishing objectives that appear to have less value or benefit to them. They most often:

* are skilled, sophisticated learners that systematically follow principles, processes, or procedures, think hierarchially, and capably achieve average to above-standard learning objectives, tasks, and performance.
* may sometimes clearly acknowledge meeting only the stated objectives, getting the grade, streamlining learning efforts, and avoiding exploratory steps beyond the requirements of the situation and learning task.

More information at: http://training.trainingplace.com/loq/pop_perf1.htm

Transforming Learners ....are generally highly motivated, passionate, often persistent even in the face of failure, and highly comitted learners. They most often:

* place great importance on learning ability, committed effort, independence, vision, and intrinsic resources.
* use personal strengths, ability, persistence, challenging strategies, high-standards, learning efficacy, and positive expectations to self-direct learning successfully.
* lose motivation and may become frustrated or resistant in environments or conditions that mismatch their aggressive learning needs.

More information at: http://training.trainingplace.com/loq/pop_trans1.htm

The Pima County School Superintendent’s Office is pleased to present the 3rd Annual FA+IR for Educators (Fantastic A+ Instructional Resources). This is a premier opportunity for educators to learn about classroom resources, field trip opportunities, and other educational resources available from various museums, organizations and companies in Southern Arizona. Over 500 educators from public, private and charter schools have attended our FA+IR in the past.
Visit www.fairforeducators.org for information on how to become an exhibitor.
WHEN: June 11, 2008, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
WHERE:
Holiday Inn Palo Verde
4550 S. Palo Verde Road
Tucson, AZ
COST: FREE to educators

Open source curriculum (OSC) is an online instructional resource that can be freely used, distributed and modified. OSC is based on the open source practice of creating products or software that opens up access to source materials or codes. Applied to education,
this process invites feedback and participation from developers,
educators, government officials, students and parents and empowers them
to exchange ideas, improve best practices and create world-class
curricula. These “development” communities can form ad-hoc, within the
same subject area or around a common student need, and allow for a
variety of editing and workflow structures.