Jenna Cushing-Leubner works with teachers and youth to create learning spaces where languages “bring knowledge from many places.”
Jenna Cushing-Leubner has spent the last three years working with Roosevelt High School in Minnesota to support students with Spanish-speaking backgrounds who were experiencing a lack of opportunities to engage in meaningful, intellectual educational experiences and were at-risk of being pushed out of school before graduating. (more…)
U launches groundbreaking new Ojibwe-English ‘talking’ dictionary.
Eugene Stillday was born in Ponemah on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, where he grew up speaking Ojibwe. That is, until his public school teachers forbade him from the practice and punished him and his classmates for speaking the only language they knew.
“[So] we developed a system,” Stillday says. “We’d be talking to each other in Ojibwe, and when the teacher came nearby we’d just naturally swing into English, and when she left, you know, right back to Ojibwe.” (more…)
