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LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE SCHOOL, HAYWARD, WISCONSIN School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE SCHOOL, HAYWARD, WISCONSIN Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe (Chippewa) School is located on fourteen acres of the Ojibwe reservation, near the town of Hayward in northwest Wisconsin. The thirty-year-old K–12 campus is a grant school funded through the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C., and a Title I school with one hundred percent of the student population receiving free or reduced lunch. It is the mission of the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School to facilitate the greatest possible spiritual, cultural, intellectual, physical, emotional, and social well-being of every individual, with the goal of ensuring that all students become productive and contributing citizens of the Lac Courte Oreilles community, the state, the nation, and the world, in their own meaningful way. Since 2000, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation school, in partnership with the Center for Civic Education, has adapted and implemented the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program (SVPDP) in grades K–12 with the Lac Courte Ojibwe and Menominee tribes. In keeping with the school’s philosophy of a holistic approach to student development, the SVPDP curriculum is taught across disciplines with the active participation of teachers in English, science, art, and music. Each spring, students host the Ziigwan Showcase Festival that celebrates the writing, artwork, and cultural objects they have created. The Ziigwan Festival includes a civic fair that highlights the year’s work by SVPDP students. As a result of the program’s success at the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School, the Winter School District, which enrolls 60 percent of all Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribal member school-age children, has recently adopted the program. LAC COURTE OREILLES OJIBWE SCHOOL PROGRAM IMPACT September 2009–June 2010 September 2001–June 2009 Total Schools 2 3 5 Students 584 2,382 2,966 Teachers 34 153 187 PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS AND ANECDOTES • Wisconsin Project Citizen State Showcase • For the first time since the inception of the program, a middle school group took first place in the Wisconsin Project Citizen state showcase. The class project, called “Limiting Busing Helps the Environment,” earned the students special recognition not only at the state level, but nationally. As a result of their efforts, their project went to the national showcase and they were asked to present at the Native Indian Education Association convention held in Milwaukee in October 2009. • Tribal involvement • The Tribal Council and Reservation Elders, teachers, school principal, guidance counselors, speech pathologist, and librarians are all involved in the program, and their support plays an essential role in the program’s acceptance by the Ojibwe tribal community. A local public school (in the town of Winter, Wisconsin) with a 60 percent Native American population has also come on board with the program. • Added Foundations of Democracy and We the People cultural connections via a website • In a joint effort by members of the teaching staff and tribal elders, a website was created. This site illustrates cultural connections to the SVPDP Foundations of Democracy and We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution materials to reflect the experience of the Wisconsin woodland Native American tribes. An extensive resources collection, as well as live video of tribal elders reading legends and stories, adds to the curriculum making relevant and meaningful connections to Native American students. Lesson plans are well thought out and referenced with links to tribal constitutions and other sites. • The URL for the website is www.lcoschools.bia.edu. Scroll down to the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program button. QUOTES Year after year, I appreciate the quality training that you provide for the staff at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School in the area of school violence prevention. It helps, we are using common vocabulary school-wide to identify the behavior of bullies. DENNIS WHITE, HEAD ADMINISTRATOR, LCO SCHOOL Our future as a tribe looks brighter because of the work you have done on this project. BRIAN BISSONETTE, TRIBAL COUNCIL GOVERNING BOARD MEMBER FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT Center for Civic Education Maxine Mashek, Site Coordinator Keahe Davis, Site Coordinator 5145 Douglas Fir Road, Calabasas, CA 91302 [email protected] [email protected] TEL 818-591-9321 www.civiced.org.
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