• No Cost PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT for LKSD EDUCATORS •

NEW WEBINARS COMING FALL 2024

WEBINARS WITH OPTIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT

The ALIS grant provides no-cost registration and continuing education credits for the Alaska Staff Development Network webinars to educators employed by LKSD. Links for registration are embedded in the document. If you have questions about registering for webinars, please email asdn@alaskaacsa.org 

ALIS ASDN Webinars Spring 2024

FOR CREDIT CLASSES

The ALIS grant provides no-cost registration and continuing education credits for one class per semester to educators employed by LKSD. 

EDUCATORS MAY ENROLL IN ONE CLASS PER SEMESTER AND A MAXIMUM OF THREE PER CALENDAR YEAR. That means one fall semester, one spring semester, and one during the summer (as long as you are contracted to be employed by LKSD in the following fall). If you have questions, contact Nuri Johnsen, ALIS project Director directly at njohnsen@alaskaacsa.org.


ALIS Classes for LKSD Spring 2024

COMPUTER SCIENCE TRAINING WITH OPTIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT

The ALIS grant provides no-cost registration and continuing education credits for Code.org trainings to educators employed by LKSD. Links for registration embedded in the document. If you have questions about code.org training, email cbobo@alaskaacsa.org.

Code.org for ALIS

• ABOUT ALIS & LKSD •

ALIS grant partners work together to support student achievement and access to remote learning. Emphasis is on cultural academic activities, intensive tutoring and academic programs, college readiness, and remote delivery enhancements throughout the Lower Kuskokwim School District.

Project Objectives and Activities:

Project Activities include:

High-Dosage Tutoring, summer and after-school programs, Field Biology Yupik Culture Summer Course, Alaska Native Science and Engineering Academy, Cultural Intensive Career Camps, converting culturally-based curricula to remote delivery format, e-readers, providing PD, increasing internet bandwidth, training for intranet bandwidth, college readiness assessments, college awareness events, college campus visits, academic planning and advising, college planning/financial aid/admissions.

This project is funded by an Alaska Native Education Program grant from the US Department of Education. The grantee is the Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council. The Accelerated Learning for Indigenous Students (ALIS) grant is a partnership between Orutsararmiut Traditional Native Council, Lower Kuskokwim School District, the Alaska Staff Development Network and RGI Research Corporation.