Partnering with Families to Support Native Language Learning in Head Start Programs
Explore this resource for simple ways to support children’s native-language learning in your program.
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Tribal Language
Check out these resources to learn about how Head Start American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) program services can help preserve, revitalize, restore, or maintain a child’s home language or heritage language.
Also check out our American Indian/Alaska Native AIAN resources.
Partnering with Families to Support Native Language Learning at Home
Explore this resource for simple ways to support your child’s native language learning at home and in the community.
Partnering with Families to Support Native Language Learning
Find practical strategies to support children's native language learning at home and in Head Start programs.
Making It Work: Implementing Cultural Learning Experiences in American Indian and Alaska Native Early Learning Settings for Children Ages Birth to 5
Making It Work is a resource that can help American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) early education staff meet school readiness goals. Learn how to use it while teaching traditional cultural skills, values, beliefs, and lifeways.
Tribal Consultation Sessions
Tribal Consultation reports reflect comments and recommendations raised by Tribal leaders and their representatives; comments and responses from OHS; and areas identified at the Tribal Consultations as requiring follow up by OHS.
Tribal Language Preservation and Revitalization
Find out how this Standards in Action vignette addresses the requirements for tribal language preservation and revitalization.
A Training Guide for Implementing Making It Work In Tribal Early Learning Settings
Use these materials to support program leaders and early childhood staff working with children ages birth to 5 in American Indian and Alaska Native early learning settings to implement the Making It Work process.
Using the Cherokee Language
In this video, a volunteer at the Salina Early Learning Academy in Salina, OK shares how she helps teach children the Cherokee language and why it's so important.
Singing and Drumming
Watch children from the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe Early Head Start Program experience the S'Klallum culture by singing in the tribal language and drumming.
Alaskan High Kick
See older toddlers from the Cook Inlet Early Head Start Program take turns trying out a traditional native game, the Alaskan High Kick.
