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Pandemic Pivots Arapaho Language Program To Virtual Instruction


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The plan to build an immersion program at St. Stephens Indian School in Fremont County had been years in the making. Immersion language programs use various techniques to encourage bilingual learning. This program was going to have three teachers in a classroom of around a dozen kindergartners. The teachers would teach kindergarteners everything they normally do, only half in English and half in Arapaho.
Dr. Tim Rush is a retired professor at the University of Wyoming. He taught linguistics. Rush and the late Dr. Burnett Whiteplume had been working on an immersion program for years.
The late Dr. Burnette Whiteplume and I developed this model 10 to 15 years ago. The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) liked what we proposed and funded it, Rush said. ....

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