Program that brings Indigenous culture into the classroom expands to more communities in Southeast Alaska
Posted by Angela Denning | Jan 25, 2021
Tlingit Elder David Katzeek addresses a cohort of teachers
during a Thru the Cultural Lens seminar in the clan house of the Walter Soboleff Building in
Juneau in 2016. (Photo by Nobu Koch)
A program that teaches teachers how to incorporate culture into their classrooms has moved into several communities in Southeast Alaska. The program “Thru the Cultural Lens” is run by Sealaska Heritage Institute. It’s been in some of Juneau’s secondary schools for about seven years but this year it’s expanding to five K-12 school districts in smaller communities in the region.