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Michigan Indigenous Education Initiative outlines co‑governance, curriculum and teacher learning work
Summary
MDE presenters and tribal partners described the Indigenous Education Initiative’s government-to-government approach, a curriculum project to teach Indigenous history (including the boarding school era), and training and consultation infrastructure established under Executive Directive 2019-17.
State and tribal education leaders outlined the Michigan Department of Education’s Indigenous Education Initiative (IEI) and its work with the Confederation of Michigan Tribal Education Departments during a Jan. 14 State Board presentation.
IEI leaders said their work is grounded in a government-to-government collaborative governance model and cited Executive Directive 2019-17 from the governor’s office as the policy infrastructure that formalizes consultation expectations between state agencies and tribal nations. “We operate in a space between the department and the tribal nations,” Initiative Director Jen Huskin LaPointe said, describing quarterly meetings among tribal education directors and regular co‑designed consultation policies.
Presenters said a key, funded project is an Indigenous history curriculum effort to develop…
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