Programs and Services
All principal owners of AEI are highly skilled museum educators and provide a unique perspective to educational support services. As museum educators, AEI has experience with students of all grade levels and participants of all skill levels. Because of these collective years of experience working with a wide variety of audiences, flexibility is one of the our strengths. In addition, educational support services and educational programming offered by AEI are fluid in presentation, interactive and discussion driven. AEI’s role in achieving social change as part of its mission means creating thought-provoking and innovative learning methods meant for a wide variety of audiences.
Professional Development
Teaching About Native People in the Americas
1 Day Professional Development Training for K-12 Teachers
What terminology for Native People is appropriate in our classrooms? How can lessons about history, social studies, literature, and art all incorporate Indigenous perspectives? What resources are available that correspond our school’s curriculum? Akomawt educators spend the day working with teachers and staff to understand the approaches and methods educators can use when incorporating Native American history and contemporary experiences into their lesson plans. Resources for K-12 teachers are shared and questions are answered throughout this interactive day long training.
$1,000 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 educators
Program length: max 5 hours
Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
1 Day Professional Development Training for K-12 Teachers
What terminology for Native People is appropriate in our classrooms? How can lessons about history, social studies, literature, and art all incorporate Indigenous perspectives? What resources are available that correspond our school’s curriculum? Akomawt educators spend the day working with teachers and staff to understand the approaches and methods educators can use when incorporating Native American history and contemporary experiences into their lesson plans. Resources for K-12 teachers are shared and questions are answered throughout this interactive day long training.
$1,000 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 educators
Program length: max 5 hours
Professional Development for K-12 Teachers
Interpreting Native American Collections
1 Day Professional Development Training for Museum Professionals
Interpreting Native American collections in culturally appropriate and historically aware ways are vital to museum work in the 21st century. Terminology, collections methods, public programming and engaging with Indian communities all indicate the level of educational and cultural sophistication of your public humanities and cultural heritage institution. Akomawt educators will lead a day long training on the basics of these tenants, provide historical context to museum methods in use today, and provide resources that equip museum professionals and staff with a knowledgeable and Indigenously grounded foundation from which to work in your path forward.
$1,000 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 participants
Program length: max 5 hours
Professional Development for Museum Staff and Professionals
1 Day Professional Development Training for Museum Professionals
Interpreting Native American collections in culturally appropriate and historically aware ways are vital to museum work in the 21st century. Terminology, collections methods, public programming and engaging with Indian communities all indicate the level of educational and cultural sophistication of your public humanities and cultural heritage institution. Akomawt educators will lead a day long training on the basics of these tenants, provide historical context to museum methods in use today, and provide resources that equip museum professionals and staff with a knowledgeable and Indigenously grounded foundation from which to work in your path forward.
$1,000 per program group + mileage
Program group max: 30 participants
Program length: max 5 hours
Professional Development for Museum Staff and Professionals
Consulting Services
- Providing K-12 educators valuable and accurate content for curriculum development concerning New England’s population of color (including Native American and African American communities).
- Providing educators at all levels with Native sourced curriculum and resources created by Akomawt Educational Initiative and its partners as well as consultancy on how best to teach those resources
- Providing museums, historical societies, and cultural institutions with socially just and accurate historic information and the means with which to interpret Native collections and themes with and for Native communities.
- Serving museums, historical societies and cultural institutions with collaborative educational programming for students and visitors.
- Collaborating with college and university administrators and NAS, history, anthropology and education faculty for semester long co teaching, guest lectures, and consulting and coursework.
- Supporting college and university campus specific programs and diversity initiatives through student coalition trainings, programming and Native student support services.
- Providing a critical and needed link between key scholars and educators, which can include networking with local Native knowledge keepers and pairing when there is need as expert speakers or additional consultants.
- Functioning as facilitators for scholarly and cultural institutions with innovative partnerships to create a new educational outlook about Native America.
- Serving as a primary contact and conduit for interpreting historical and cultural landscapes.
- Creating travelling museum exhibits to address Native histories and contemporary issues and bring these issues to a wide public audience in a manner that is culturally competent, historically accurate and representative of the views of modern and historical Native America.
- Providing support and resources for public events and festivals such as educational song, dance and visual performances; ensuring that accurate cultural performers are utilized in informative and respectful ways.
- Scope and duration of projects requiring consultancy services can vary. Pricing will be determined according to the needs of your institution. Get in contact with us and let’s talk about your organization’s goals and anticipated outcomes, we will craft a consultancy plan that works within your time, staffing and budget requirements.