Alaska Native Cultural Charter School

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Curriculum Overview

Guiding Native Values

Respect for elders

Honor the ancestors

Respect for family, self and others

Preserve and pass on traditional ways of knowing

Responsibility, hard work, and endurance

Compassion, dignity and humility

Humor, cooperation and caring

Knowledge of and respect for nature

Knowledge of language

Wisdom

Self-sufficiency

The curriculum for the Charter School is structured around four themes. The four themes provide the strands through which the essential cultural and academic knowledge of Alaskan Natives will be studied. One theme will be taught per quarter. The theme acts as an umbrella for the full elementary curriculum. The themes are:

First quarter:	Living in place
Second quarter:	Language and Communication
Third quarter:	Culture and Expression
Fourth quarter:	Tribe and Community

All of the Alaska Native ethnic groups will be incorporated in the sequence of study through the elementary years. The grade levels are as follows:

K	- All Alaska Native Ethnic Groups
1	- Athabascans
2	- Yupik
3	- Aleut
4	- Inupiaq
5	- Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian
6	- Student chosen Cultural Culminating Project

Every grade will continue to build on the one central theme of the quarter. Students will engage in a culminating project during the fourth quarter that demonstrates an understanding of the knowledge of that ethnic group.

The curriculum will include classroom and community based activities, which implement the academic and cultural standards as outlined in the Alaska State Standards and Culturally Responsive Schools.

Anchorage School District math, science, and health curricula will be implemented.