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JSD board struggles to trim its tight budget

...alternatives for the board to consider - adding back cultural specialists, one custodian, Extended Learning and one elementary...funding to reinstate elementary specialists and cultural specialists. Story said the district also is in the middle...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-03-28/jsd-board-struggles-trim-its-tight-budg
Local
JSD approves budget after 3 hours of deliberation with no changes

...Friday.The new proposal suggested adding back the cultural specialists, art specialist, one Extended Learning position...pupil transportation and activities to keep the cultural specialists. Board member Kim Poole joined them in moving for...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-03-27/jsd-approves-budget-after-3-hours-delib
Local
Students get hooked on salmon

...growth.Science teachers and cultural specialists formed a large unit on salmon...coho, Victoria Johnson, DZ cultural specialist, asked the students to be respectful...Thunder Mountain High School cultural specialist, placed a salmon on a plastic...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-09-29/students-get-hooked-salmon
Local
Great Pumpkin Festival a 'huge success'

...Tlinglit Nation traded good for potatoes, and where Tlinglit potatoes originate. Victoria Johnson, the school cultural specialist who spoke about the project, said she hoped the talk inspires people to build their own garden."I hope that they...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-09/great-pumpkin-festival-huge-success
Local
Students drum up interest in history

...Paniagua-Willis and Dakota Cross went outside with cultural specialist Mary Folletti. They pulled a deer hide that was...week."Then just bringing in elders and other cultural specialists if a classroom that needs an elder to tell a story...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-03-08/students-drum-interest-history
Local
Yaakoosge to 2011 grads: 'You have the strength within you'

...student who wished to speak could. Two Juneau School District employees spoke first, Lyle James, Yaakoosge Tlingit cultural specialist and Ronalda Cadiente-Brown, former principal of the school. "A long time ago my grandfather, he sat me down...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-05-25/yaakoosge-2011-grads-you-have-strength-
Local
Workshop works to revitalize Tlingit language

...work with our elders and to listen to them speak in the Tlingit Language which is good for the beginners," GHF Cultural Specialist Paul Marks said. "To hear the sounds subconsciously I believe will help the beginner, as well as those who are...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2011-08-20/workshop-works-revitalize-tlingit-l
Neighbors
Reaching for the culture and the children

...take a break. His students were preparing to get back to work. "Everybody was giving fives," said Brown, the cultural specialist at Dzantik'i Heeni Middle School, of his students' reaction during the early-June Native cultural festival...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071202/loc_brown.shtml
News
Strength of mind, body, spirit

...spiritual well to give their all to the game and life." The classes are taught by a cadre of primarily Alaska Native cultural specialists, high school teachers and directors of Sealaska Corp. Duain White of Hoonah, 18, said among all the classes...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081005/loc_20050810011.shtml
News
Tlingit classrooms - a good report card

...and incorporating Native culture such as potlatches. Besides the classroom teachers, the program employs a cultural specialist and elders. Native students suffer from low self-esteem, teacher Shgen George told the School Board. They...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081103/loc_tlingitclass.shtml
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