Rural Early Childhood Forum on American Indian and Alaska Native Early Learning Will Be July 28-29 at Clinton Center

The William J. Clinton Presidential Center

JUNE 9, 2005 | The National Center for Rural Early Childhood Learning Initiatives at Mississippi State University, in conjunction with the American Indian Leadership Program and the Center on Rural Education and Communities at Pennsylvania State University, will sponsor the Rural Early Childhood Forum on American Indian and Alaska Native Early Learning July 28-29 at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Cathy Grace, Ed.D., professor and director of Rural Early Childhood, and John Tippeconnic, Ph.D. (Comanche), professor and director of the American Indian Leadership Program at Penn State, will chair the forum.

Commissioned authors will deliver papers in response to questions adapted from the American Indian and Alaska Native Education Research Agenda (U.S. Department of Education, 2001) that was developed through a nationwide consensus process in response to White House Executive Order 13096 of 1998. Rural Early Childhood will publish the proceedings of the forum.

The participants in the forum will include:

David Baker, Ph.D.
Professor-in-Charge
Educational Theory and Policy
College of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

Susan R. Banks, Ph.D. (Arapaho)
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching and Learning
College of Education
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington

David Beaulieu, Ph.D., (White Earth Chippewa)
Division of Education Leadership and Policy Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona

Roger Bordeaux, Ed.D. (Sicangu Lakota)
Superintendent
Tiospa Zina Tribal School
Agency Village, South Dakota

Nicole Bowman (Mohican)
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Education Leadership and Policy Analysis
College of Education
University of Wisconsin
Owner, Bowman Performance Consulting, LLC
Shawano, Wisconsin

William Boyd, Ph.D.
Batschelet Chair Professor of Educational Administration
College of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

Jeanne Bumpus (Invited)
Majority Staff Director for the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Washington, D.C.

Cheryl D. Clay, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Teacher Education
Fort Lewis College
Durango, Colorado

Ann Copland (Invited)
Senior Executive and Legislative Assistant
Office of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran
Washington, D.C.

Laurel Endfield (White Mountain Apache)
Doctoral Candidate
Fielding Graduate Institute
Pinetop, Arizona

Susan C. Faircloth, Ph.D. (Coharie)
Assistant Professor
Departments of Education Policy Studies and Special Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

Sara Garland (Invited)
Minority Staff Director for the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Washington, D.C.

R. Dwight Hare, Ph.D.
Professor
College of Education
Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi

Esther Howard, Ed.D. (Invited)
Department Head and Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education
Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi

Frances “Pigeon” Jack (Oglala Sioux)
Child Care Director and Development Director
Pine Ridge, South Dakota

Teresa Jayroe, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction College of Education Mississippi State University Starkville, Mississippi

Linda Kills Crow (Delaware)
Director
Tribal Child Care Technical Assistance Center
Native American Management Services, Incorporated
Ponca City, Oklahoma

Debbie Lente-Jojola
National Coordinator
Family and Child Education (FACE)
Baby FACE
Bureau of Indian Affairs
U.S. Office of Indian Education
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Grayson Noley, Ph.D. (Choctaw)
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
College of Education
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma

Margaret Pope, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Education
Mississippi State University
Starkville, Mississippi

Julie Quaid (Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs)
Education Director
The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs
Warm Springs, Oregon

Nila Rinehart, M.Ed. (Taos Pueblo)
Project Director
Community Development Institute
Denver, Colorado

Winona Sample (Red Lake Chippewa)
Consultant for Early Education, American Indian Programs
Folsom, California

Kai A. Schafft, Ph.D.
Department of Education Policy Studies
College of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

Gloria Sly, Ph.D. (Cherokee Nation)
Director
Cherokee Nation Cultural Resource Center
Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Linda K. Smith
Executive Director
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
Washington, D.C.

Rick St. Germaine, Ph.D. (Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibway)
Professor
History Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Nicole L. Thompson, Ph.D. (Menominee/Mohican)
Assistant Professor
College of Education
Mississippi State University.
Starkville, Mississippi

Cheryl Wilson (Osage/Kaw)
Head Start Program Director
Indian Health Service
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Ed.D. (Navajo)
Department of Education
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

Nicole L. Thompson, Ph.D. (Menominee/Mohican) is chair of the Program Committee. Members of the Program Committee are Susan C. Faircloth, Ph.D., assistant professor of educational leadership and special education, Penn State, and Kai Schafft, Ph.D., assistant professor of education policy studies and co-director of the Center on Rural Education and Communities, Penn State.

 

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