Native Elders & Youth Conference
Anchorage, Alaska Over 100 people came to the 2 hour WAYK demo run by Kodiak youth!
Anchorage, Alaska Over 100 people came to the 2 hour WAYK demo run by Kodiak youth!
Stanford Splash! workshop led by Stanford Languages Club members Will Monroe and Miguel San Pedro. This will be a one day advanced hunting workshop with Stanford Languages Club and will include group planning for expanding WAYK at Stanford.
Phoenix, Arizona WAYK returns to Arizona for a 3 day workshop with district wide head start staff training forcusing on the Pima and Pi-Posh languages. This will be a technique driven training for Head Start teachers and students. This workshop was organized by the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI).
Bishop, CA One day will be spent on curriculum design consultation with Qwina West and one day on a community workshop and designing "The Walk".
Baltimore, Maryland WAYK session led by Jason Slanga (Latin). Evan sticks around Baltimore for individual training, classroom observation and presentations.
Kodiak, Alaska Kodiak's cultural organizations collaborate to bring WAYK back for advanced individual Technique training. Kodiak meets this summers WAYK interns, Will and Julia, who will spend the summer Language Hunting!
This course will train each participant in WAYK methods, as well as how to develop a core group of teacher trainers who will create language learning opportunities at community language nights, community gatherings and at home settings. Specific methods for community development as well as technique and expertise sharing will be explored in depth and... Read more »
Evan and other WAYK players will be in attendance for 2 weeks of Latin immersion plus a week long TPRS Latin focused workshop. If you love Latin and if you want to turn your classroom into a Latin speaking center of excellence then come to Rusticatio Virginiana!
Kodiak Island, Alaska Evan Gardner will help lead discussions or demonstrations on such topics as: hit lists, rides to film, fluency planning for self and community, ACTFL demo test, the perfect path, ACTFL level Alutiiq benchmarks, when and how to use the grammar book, advanced fishing demos, advanced pushing demos, triangulation, and testing rides with... Read more »
Brooklyn, NY The New York State Association of Independent Schools brings WAYK for an introductory workshop for world language teachers. The training will include an introduction to techniques for student directed learning, a discussion of the ACTFL proficiency levels, and creating young teachers.
Anacortes, Washington Samish Tribe brings WAYK to their annual language campout. WAYK around the campfire. Is there anything better?
Yakutat, Alaska Yakutat Tlingit Tribe hosts a one week immersion camp in Yakutat Alaska. This event will focus on Master/Apprentice teams empowering both to stay in the language!
SALVI presents two weeks of Latin immersion (July 2-9 and July 17-24) at the beautiful Claymont Mansion. This will be the fourth year WAYK has participated in this Living Latin immersion experience. Sandwiched between two weeks of spoken Latin, SALVI presents this year's Pedagogy Rusticatio (July 10-15). This year, the focus is on Where Are Your Keys?: Bringing... Read more »
WAYK returns to Samish in Anacortes, Washington for another amazing campout. We still love WAYK around the campfire.
This will be the third time that WAYK visits four communities in the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands in partnership with APIA. While all workshops will serve to develop the regional core team's WAYK skills, the visit to St. Paul will focus on curriculum development, the visit to Atka will focus on fluency skills, and the workshops in King Cove... Read more »
In partnership with the Tanana Tribal Council and the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tok Center, the Doyon Foundation will bring WAYK to the interior of Alaska for three workshops. The Tanana and Tok trainings will focus on the process of creating a community of language teaching and learning experts. The Fairbanks training will provide an introduction to WAYK for newcomers and a... Read more »
WAYK meets with the language team working on Mountain Maidu (Majdy, Tosajdom) at Susanville Rancheria to present a workshop and practice key WAYK language learning and teaching strategies. Language advocates from neighboring communities (including Greenville Rancheria, Pitt River, and Wašiw) will also attend.
In partnership with the Doyon Foundation, WAYK returns to Alaska to keep working with several of the many Athabascan languages in the interior. This two week visit focuses on continuing training for participants of past workshops, especially small group coaching for language push/pull (teaching & learning) skills with four languages: Hän, Denaakk’e (Koyukon), Gwich'in, and Deg Xinag. In... Read more »
With support from Doyon Limited and the Tanana Tribal Council, WAYK returns to Tanana to provide additional training and support for learners of Denaakk'e (Koyukon Athabascan) who attended previous WAYK workshops. The WAYK team will work with small teams of learners and speakers, coaching and assisting with immersion sessions around the kitchen table.
This introductory WAYK workshop will focus on techniques that can be used inside and outside of the classroom. The workshop is designed to support the beginning of ANHC's three-year project with Yup'ik and Inupiaq.