Our Partnerships
Dual Language Education of New Mexico
Dual Language Education of New Mexico
Dual Language Education of New Mexico
Khapo Kidz Initiative
The Khapo Kidz Initiative was formally acknowledged and supported by Tribal Council in Resolution 2012-08, “to bring attention and priority to the development of tribal youth through a multi-disciplinary approach focused on (1) building community involvement, (2) improving holistic health, (3) reducing juvenile and young adult crime, and (4) providing mentoring, leadership, and educational, opportunities.” The Initiative in 2014 has most recently lead to the development of the Department of Youth and Learning, a specialized division of tribal government dedicated to holistic positive youth development and lifelong learning. The new organizational model united five departments/programs under one director, and more importantly, one mission; “Cultivate lifelong learning and holistic health through education, mentoring, and play”. The programs include Education and Training, Recreation, Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative, Tewa Language Program, and our Community Library.
The Khapo Kidz Initiative was formally acknowledged and supported by Tribal Council in Resolution 2012-08, “to bring attention and priority to the development of tribal youth through a multi-disciplinary approach focused on (1) building community involvement, (2) improving holistic health, (3) reducing juvenile and young adult crime, and (4) providing mentoring, leadership, and educational, opportunities.” The Initiative in 2014 has most recently lead to the development of the Department of Youth and Learning, a specialized division of tribal government dedicated to holistic positive youth development and lifelong learning. The new organizational model united five departments/programs under one director, and more importantly, one mission; “Cultivate lifelong learning and holistic health through education, mentoring, and play”. The programs include Education and Training, Recreation, Domestic Violence Prevention Initiative, Tewa Language Program, and our Community Library.
NACA Inspired Schools Network
NISN is a network of schools focused on rigorous and relevant education for Native students. Housed out of the Native American Community Academy (NACA) in Albuquerque, the network currently consists of two schools: NACA and Dream Dine, a Navajo/English dual language school in Shiprock, NM. The Dził Dit Ł'ooí School of Empowerment, Action and Perseverance (DEAP) will open in Navajo, New Mexico in the fall of 2015. Leadership Fellows from around the country have joined the network to help tribes start charter or grant schools that meet their children's needs.
NISN brings experience in creating curriculum that incorporates indigenous language and culture. NACA, in its eighth year, is a 6 - 12 high school that serves nearly 400 students from over 60 different tribes. NACA students have the option of taking the Navajo, Lakota, Tiwa, and Keres languages. Their education is based on a holistic, community vision that the school's Executive Director, Kara Bobroff, worked to develop in the years before the school opened.
Visit: www.nacainspiredschoolsnetwork.org or www.nacaschool.org for more information.
NISN is a network of schools focused on rigorous and relevant education for Native students. Housed out of the Native American Community Academy (NACA) in Albuquerque, the network currently consists of two schools: NACA and Dream Dine, a Navajo/English dual language school in Shiprock, NM. The Dził Dit Ł'ooí School of Empowerment, Action and Perseverance (DEAP) will open in Navajo, New Mexico in the fall of 2015. Leadership Fellows from around the country have joined the network to help tribes start charter or grant schools that meet their children's needs.
NISN brings experience in creating curriculum that incorporates indigenous language and culture. NACA, in its eighth year, is a 6 - 12 high school that serves nearly 400 students from over 60 different tribes. NACA students have the option of taking the Navajo, Lakota, Tiwa, and Keres languages. Their education is based on a holistic, community vision that the school's Executive Director, Kara Bobroff, worked to develop in the years before the school opened.
Visit: www.nacainspiredschoolsnetwork.org or www.nacaschool.org for more information.
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Music in Our Schools, the largest of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s six music education programs, serves more than 5,000 students in northern New Mexico. Throughout the school year, the Festival presents three chamber music concerts at each of the program’s participating schools, which are currently in Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos, Pecos, and Santa Clara Pueblo. The concerts feature classical, jazz, and world music performed by acclaimed artists. Prior to each concert, the Festival trains the schools’ music teachers and provides them with recordings and learning manipulatives. The teachers then introduce the music to their students and help them experience it through engaging, research-based, age-appropriate learning sequences. When the musicians arrive on concert day, the students are already familiar with the music in terms of its sounds, characteristics, instruments, and composers. This preparatory experience makes each school concert personal, safe, intellectually accessible, and memorable.
Guitar in Our Schools is a program designed by Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival to provide students with sequential instruction in classical guitar. The program launched in 2016 and is based exclusively at Kha’p’o Community School at Santa Clara Pueblo. Instruction is led by Roberto Capocchi, an accomplished, well-known guitarist and pedagogue who performs throughout the southwest and in his home country of Brazil. The program is a hands-on, after-school enrichment initiative for students in grades 3-6, allowing students to learn multiple aspects of guitar playing through twice weekly lessons. There is one class for beginners and one intermediate-level class. Currently serving 15 students, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Kha’p’o school administration will expand the program to serve a total of 30 students this January. Students perform twice yearly as well as at special Kha’p’o Community School events.
Visit: https://www.santafechambermusic.com/education/
Music in Our Schools, the largest of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s six music education programs, serves more than 5,000 students in northern New Mexico. Throughout the school year, the Festival presents three chamber music concerts at each of the program’s participating schools, which are currently in Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos, Pecos, and Santa Clara Pueblo. The concerts feature classical, jazz, and world music performed by acclaimed artists. Prior to each concert, the Festival trains the schools’ music teachers and provides them with recordings and learning manipulatives. The teachers then introduce the music to their students and help them experience it through engaging, research-based, age-appropriate learning sequences. When the musicians arrive on concert day, the students are already familiar with the music in terms of its sounds, characteristics, instruments, and composers. This preparatory experience makes each school concert personal, safe, intellectually accessible, and memorable.
Guitar in Our Schools is a program designed by Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival to provide students with sequential instruction in classical guitar. The program launched in 2016 and is based exclusively at Kha’p’o Community School at Santa Clara Pueblo. Instruction is led by Roberto Capocchi, an accomplished, well-known guitarist and pedagogue who performs throughout the southwest and in his home country of Brazil. The program is a hands-on, after-school enrichment initiative for students in grades 3-6, allowing students to learn multiple aspects of guitar playing through twice weekly lessons. There is one class for beginners and one intermediate-level class. Currently serving 15 students, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and Kha’p’o school administration will expand the program to serve a total of 30 students this January. Students perform twice yearly as well as at special Kha’p’o Community School events.
Visit: https://www.santafechambermusic.com/education/
