Indigenous Early Intervention Alliance (IEIA)

The child above is using Indigenous beads to help her spatial learning.

Above: Indigenous beads help blend culture with learning.

Learning Center:  The seven Ojibwe Teachings is the core curriculum for setting clear behavior and expectation standards.  The Medicine Wheel design with the four colors embraces everyone.  In the Ojibwe Teachings, the characteristics of seven animals are used to reinforce social and emotional concepts - wisdom, love, courage, honesty, humility, and truth - these concepts are associated with the beaver, eagle, buffalo, bear, sabe (giant), wolf, and the turtle (see in picture frames).

Above:  The Beaver - "We try our best."  This social and emotional concept relates to perceived self-competence, self-efficacy, and self-esteem. 

Above:  The Eagle - "Care about others."  This social and emotional concept relates to peer relationships and social adjustment. 

Below:  This learning center reinforces concepts through experiential learning activities.

Below:  This child is learning mathematical concepts (geometry) using traditional (Indigenous) beads.

Below:  These children are learning

SCIENCE - exploring our world through math and social studies using traditional (Indigenous) beads.

Below:  Inter-Tribal collaboration on Indigenous early intervention.  Arizona Inter-Tribal Council (ITCA) early childhood working group meeting on 08/16/2007.