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Language Immersion Workshops Offered by the

Consortium of Indigenous Language Organizations (CILO)

Language Immersion for Native Children Project funded by

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

www.ilinative.org/cilo

Consortium of Indigenous Language Organizations

CILO (see-lo)

Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

www.aicls.org

American Indian Language Development Institute www.u.arizona.edu/~aildi

Indigenous Language Institute www.ilinative.org

Oklahoma Native Language Association

Contact the CILO Representative at ILI for more information. ATTN: CILO

Indigenous Language Institute 1501 Cerrillos Road, U-Building Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

Email: [email protected] www.ilinative.org/cilo

Telephone 505-820-0311

Fax 505-820-0316

mailto:[email protected]

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Language Immersion for Native Children

Training Workshops to

Strengthen Language Immersion Programs

Language Immersion for Native Children (LINC) is a project funded by the

W. K. Kellogg Foundation to develop a comprehensive training program for tribal

administrators, teachers, and leaders who are involved in programs that affect

children ages 0 to 8. These programs include but are not limited to Early Childhood

Education, Head Start, Family and Child Education, tribal childcare centers, and

families.

A Consortium of Indigenous Language Organizations (CILO) is a partnership of

four organizations brought together by the Kellogg grant. These are the Indigenous

Language Institute (ILI), Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

(AICLS), American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI), and

Oklahoma Native Language Association (ONLA). CILO partners collectively have

almost 100 years of experience in indigenous language training and program

development.

CILO’s mission is to provide training for indigenous teachers, parents and

advocates of language revitalization, to assist them in their quest for the survival

and renewed intergenerational transmission of their endangered languages.

Tribes and programs can request CILO to provide the workshops in their

communities. This arrangement works well if you want to maximize the number of

participants to be trained. Certain workshops will be offered at designated sites

(such as at ILI in Santa Fe, NM). All workshops are open to anyone involved in

language revitalization and bringing our Native languages back into our lives.

Everyday, Everywhere for Everyone.

Please contact the CILO representative listed in the back of this booklet for further

information.

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Workshop Descriptions

The workshop descriptions in this booklet are a work in progress during CILO’s

first year of implementation (2010-2011). We will expand workshop offerings over

the coming years, based on feedback from communities and on experiences gained.

We value input and suggestions from all the communities we serve to ensure that

CILO is responsive to language program needs.

If you do not see a workshop topic that you would like for your community

or program, please contact CILO by email [email protected]. The

Consortium has a large network of colleagues whom we can call upon to

assist you with training on various subjects that may not currently be listed

in this booklet.

You will note that many workshops described in this booklet do not show

specific dates and locations. This allows maximum flexibility for the

communities and the language programs to customize trainings to fit their

schedule and needs.

You can request one workshop or a combination of several workshops that

you are interested in. Contact CILO to work out the schedule, logistics and

budget for the customized training sessions.

Once the dates, venue and number of participants are determined, CILO will

send a team of instructors who are available at the time.

Some workshops have specific dates and venues and you can register to

attend them by filling out the Registration Form and email it to

[email protected] or fax to 505-820-0316.



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“Strengthening Our Languages and Our Sovereignty: Language Immersion for Native Children”

One-day seminar on the services offered by the Consortium of Indigenous Language

Organizations (CILO) and guidance in planning, financing and implementing successful

language immersion environments in Native communities.

Instructor: CILO Instructor

Indigenous peoples worldwide are working to strengthen their heritage languages

and cultures. Leaders of sovereign nations play crucial roles to ensure that their

heritage languages survive and thrive for future generations. Raising awareness of

the important role of language and culture is the first step in such work. Creating

policies for language and culture maintenance help sustain and strengthen them.

Designing and implementing language and culture programs at home and in

communities are crucial. The Consortium of Indigenous Language Organizations

(CILO) advocates “language immersion” as the proven effective way of

transmitting language and culture from one generation to the next.

The presentation lays out what language immersion is, how community leaders can

help language and culture transmission to occur, and how CILO can be a powerful

partner to achieve it. The seminar will provide leaders with information, practical

tools and examples of how leadership can implement positive change in language

and culture revitalization to strengthen sovereignty of nations.

Recommended for Tribal Chairs, Tribal Council Members, organization leaders, program

executive staff.

Fee: $125/person

Language Immersion Seminar for Leaders and Policy Makers

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“Enhancing the Administrators’ Role in Language Immersion Programming for Future Generations”

One-day seminar to inform administrators on the importance of language immersion

approach at the early stages of children’s development and on effective management of

immersion programs


Transmission of language and culture knowledge must take place at home, in the

communities and in schools. Raising awareness of the important role of language

and culture among the caregivers, educators and community is the first step toward

their supportive and cooperative participation in the education process. Directors

and Administrators of programs are directly engaged in shaping of language policy,

language program designs and implementation, daily operation of the program, and

management of program staff including development and training of staff.

The Consortium of Indigenous Language Organizations (CILO) advocates

“language immersion” as the proven effective way of transmitting language and

culture from one generation to the next. The seminar provides an overview and

hands-on opportunities to experience various kinds of language immersion methods

and how they can be implemented and strengthen a range of language programs.

Recommended for Directors/Administrators of Departments of Education, Culture. Language,

Day Care Center, Head Start, Early Childhood Education, Family and Child Education,

Parents

Fee: $125 per person

Language Immersion Seminar for Administrators and Directors of Language Programs

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Three-day workshop introduces the essential basics necessary for planning and implementing

various types of immersion programs.

Instructors: CILO Instructor

The workshop provides an overview of diverse essential elements that are required

for successful planning and implementation of immersion programs. The workshop

provides hands-on experience on language immersion methods, the proven

effective way of transmitting language knowledge from one generation to the next

in a variety of contexts:

At home (Family Language Program)

In the community where an elder works with a learner (Master-Apprentice

Program)

At Day Care Centers where babies are cared for

At Preschool/Head Start where very young toddlers interact with each other

and with caregivers

At schools where young children are formally educated to be active and

contributing members of the community and of the world

Participants will learn how to design and implement immersion teaching, how to

make long range plans for language programs, how to create language activities,

how to produce fun and useful materials for language learning, and how to assess

the effectiveness of the language immersion program.

Recommended for those planning for and starting immersion programs


Immersion A to Z: Essential Basics for Language Immersion Programs

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Two-day workshop on how families can make their heritage language the language of home.

Instructor: Staff from Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

The workshop will address why the language is endangered, why language

revitalization should happen in the home, how to plan and start the family language

program, how to design a home-based lesson guidelines, and discussion about

setting up a community support system.

The workshop will cover how to prepare for language revitalization in the homes,

even before arrival of babies, strategies for exposing the baby to the language when

pregnant, language use with babies, language use with children and youth. We will

examine situational language, activities to do with children and youth.

Recommended for parents and other relatives of children; future parents interested in using

their language at home; parents who know or are learning or want to learn the language;

administrators of language programs who would like to start and support a family language

program.


Language Revitalization for Families

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Two-day workshop on Master-Apprentice method of language teaching and learning for a

speaker and an adult learner to be trained on immersion practices.

Instructor: Staff from Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival

The Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program is a method of language

teaching and learning where teams consisting of a speaker of an indigenous

language (generally an elder) and a younger adult learner are trained in immersion

practices so that they can work together to transmit the language from the speaker

to the apprentice. The approach is oral, and the goal is to help the apprentice

toward conversational fluency. They will do this through spending 10-20 hours per

week together immersed in the language and doing activities together.

The training workshop is focused on getting the teams ready to do language

immersion and preparing them for their time working together. If needed, the

workshop may also include a session on how to administer the program and

provide mentorship to master-apprentice teams.

The larger goal is to bring the apprentice to sufficient fluency that s/he can then

teach the language effectively to others, especially to children in the classroom or

the family.

Recommended for adults who are trying to learn their heritage language; elders who know

their heritage language; language teachers who wish to improve their fluency; administrators

of tribal cultural programs who may be administrating and mentoring the master-apprentice

program.


Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program

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Three-day workshop focuses on training preschool/Head Start teachers, parents and

caregivers for ages 0-5 effective language immersion practices.

Instructor(s): CILO Instructor

The three-day workshop will train parents, grandparents, caregivers, teachers and

community people who interact regularly with preschool/Head Start Programs

where Native language is the main language of activity. The workshop provides

hands-on experience on how to prepare a long-range plan for language and culture

transmission (Language Guides), daily plans of activities, and materials that help

support and strengthen language and culture transmission.

All three-day workshops typically consist of three separate but integrated training:

1) three-day hands-on training;

2) two-day follow-up workshop at a designated school site; and

3) two-day reflection and refinement workshop.

Steps 2 & 3 (follow-up and refinement) are highly recommended to maximize the

effectiveness of skills participants learn in the 3-day workshops. (Please see page

14, Follow-Up Workshops section.)

Recommended for Preschool/Head Start teachers and staff, parents, caregivers, program

directors, administrators, language supporters, language advocates


Language Immersion in Preschool/Head Start Programs

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Three-day workshop focuses on training School-age Program teachers, parents, and

caregivers for ages 5-8 effective language immersion practices.

Instructor(s): CILO Instructor

The workshop provides hands-on experience on how to prepare a long-range plan

for language and culture transmission (language guides/curriculum), daily plans of

activities, and materials and teaching tools development that help support and

strengthen language and culture transmission. This workshop is for a classroom

setting where the Native language is a primary means of communication and

teaching.


Language Immersion in School-age Programs

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Three-day workshop focuses on curriculum development for language immersion programs.

Instructor: Lucille Watahomigie

The workshop introduces Communication Based Instruction (CBI) to develop

curriculum and lesson plans for language immersion programs. CBI is a language

approach developed to produce speakers of a language. This is a hands-on

workshop where participants will plan, design and develop lesson plans after each

instructional period. Participants will have opportunities to practice, critique and

refine their materials in simulated teaching sessions.

Recommended for all levels of language teachers in school settings and community language

programs.


Language Guide (Curriculum) Development for Language Immersion

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Three-day workshop to create storybooks, flash cards and other print materials in Native

language using computer and multimedia technology.

Instructor(s): Staff at Indigenous Language Institute

Date: April 25-27, 2011

Location: Indigenous Language Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico

The three-day workshop teaches computer and multimedia technology skills to

create materials in print in the Native languages such as storybooks, flash cards,

brochures, calendars, newsletters, business cards, etc. Instructors will provide

hands-on training on the following technology skills:

a. Languagegeek© Native language keyboard and fonts for your language

using Unicode universal font encodings

b. Microsoft Publisher features to produce dynamic print materials

c. Scanning technology to add locally created and culturally appropriate

images to illustrate Native text and stories

d. Audio recording and editing in the Audio Studio to create “audio

books” (CDs) to accompany the print materials

Recommended for anyone interested in a creative process to produce print materials in Native

languages for everyday use in homes, communities and schools.


Create Print Materials in the Native Language

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Three-day workshop to create short films in Native language with digital storytelling

techniques and multimedia technology using culturally appropriate imagery and sound/music.

Instructor(s): Staff at Indigenous Language Institute

Date: June 6-8, 2011

Location: Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico

The three-day workshop teaches computer and multimedia technology skills to

create short audiovisual stories in the Native languages using ILI’s digital

storytelling template. Workshops are offered in either Windows (using

MovieMaker) or Mac (using iMovie) platforms. Workshop participants will be

asked to come prepared with a story they want to tell in 3-5 minute format, visual

materials (photos, artwork, video clips) and audio materials (songs, recordings of

narratives, music, sound effects). Instructors will provide hands-on training on the

following technology tools:

a. Photo/Graphics software – GIMP, Photoshop

b. Movie editing software – MovieMaker, iMovie

c. Audio software – Audacity

d. Media Players- MP3, iPod, iTouch

e. Scanning technology to add images to illustrate audio content

Recommended for anyone interested in a creative process to tell their stories from their

perspectives and using Native languages for homes, communities and schools.


Digital Storytelling in the Native Language

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The Follow-up Workshops are two-day sessions that provide participants time to reflect on how

they are incorporating what they learned in the three-day hands-on workshops. The first Follow-

up Workshop is recommended approximately three months after the intensive training. The

second Follow-up Workshop is scheduled three or six months after the first Follow-up. This

Follow-up Workshop concept is based on observations by CILO trainers that workshop

participants need time away from work to reflect, refresh and refine practices.

“Refreshing and Refining Our Practice”


The two-day follow-up workshop is designed for participants to review progress of skills learned

in the three-day specific workshops. It is a refresher of all the points covered in the workshop and

an opportunity to address further questions that arose in practicing these approaches. Instructors

will also observe the practitioners in action to provide feedback. It should be scheduled

approximately three months after the three-day workshops.

Highly recommended for all participants who took any of the three-day Specific Workshops.


“Assessing Our Progress”


The two-day reflection workshop will be the second follow-up session focusing on evaluation

methods and actually performing evaluation on the progress of the program. Instructors will

provide various evaluation methods and tools …. It should be scheduled approximately six

months after the three-day workshops.

Highly recommended for all participants who took any of the three-day Specific Workshops.


Follow-Up Workshops

CILO PRE-REGISTRATION (see back of page for instructions)

CILO Workshops QTY Price

A Series - One (1) day / $125.00 Per Person

A1. Language Immersion Seminar for Leaders and Policy Makers

A2. Language Immersion Seminar for Administrators and Directors of Language Programs

A3. Language Revitalization for Families

Sub Total

B Series - Two (2) day / $225.00 Per Person

B1. Master-Apprentice Language Learning Program

Sub Total

C Series - Three (3) Day / $325.00 Per Person

C1. Immersion A to Z: Essential Basics for Language Immersion Programs

C2. Language Immersion in Preschool/Head Start Programs

C3. Language Immersion in School-age Program

C4. Curriculum Development for Language Immersion

C5. Create Print Materials in the Native Language (April 25-27, 2011)

C6. Digital Storytelling in the Native Language (June 6-8, 2011)

Sub Total

CILO Follow-Up Workshops

D Series - Two (2) Day / $225.00 Per Person

D1. Refreshing and Refining Our Practice

D2. Assessing Our Progress

Sub Total

Grand Total

Name: (Last, First, M.I.) Organization :

Business Address : Work # Cell #

Email:

Native Language of Your Program :

Preferred Workshop Dates (subject to availability)

1. 2.

See instructions and further information on back of page

Pre-Registration Form Instructions

1. The CILO Pre-Registration Form is for an organization to sign up for the workshop(s) that will be

brought to the community venues. Please send the form via email to [email protected] or FAX it to

CILO at (505) 820-0316.

2. The workshops are not assigned specific dates (exception: C5 and C6) because they will be

customized for each group. Please remember to give two choices of dates that you would like for the

workshop(s) to be held at your community venue.

3. Once you send in the Pre-Registration Form, CILO will contact you and send a detailed cost

breakdown. The total cost will include the registration fee(s) for all participants plus travel and

lodging for the instructors. We will determine how many instructors are needed for the workshop,

this is necessary because of the varying number of participants.

Example: ABC Tribal Language Program wants workshop B-1 for 18 people. The ideal

Instructor-to-Participant ratio is 1:6 so we will send 3 instructors. The tribe will pay the

workshop fees and the travel & lodging costs for the three instructors.

4. CILO will send you an invoice for the total amount and a Registration form for each individual

participant.

5. Payment in full for the workshop(s) is due at least three weeks prior to the workshop dates.

Cancellation must be received two weeks prior to workshop dates for partial refund of registration

fees.

6. There will be workshops that will be held at specific locations on certain dates. For example, the

Technology Workshop C5 & C6 at ILI in Santa Fe, NM. If you select these workshops on this form,

you will be registered. Registration fees must be received at the time of registration. Cancellation

must be received 14 days prior to the workshop date.

For more information please contact

CILO

[email protected]

505-820-0311

www.ilinative.org/cilo



Contact the CILO Representative at ILI for more information. ATTN: CILO

Indigenous Language Institute 1501 Cerrillos Road, U-Building Santa Fe, New Mexico 87505

Email: [email protected] www.ilinative.org/cilo

Telephone 505-820-0311

Fax 505-820-0316


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