INDIAN EDUCATION FOR ALL (IEFA)

2019-2020

We offer a variety of professional learning options to support you with deepening integration of the Essential Understandings Regarding Montana Indians and content standards.  Our staff and consultants stay up to date with the latest in resources and implementation strategies from around the state.  Contact us to discuss a professional learning plan for your IEFA needs. Options include:

• Professional learning workshops at your school (choose from topics in the document below and we will customize them to the needs of staff, students, and schedules)
• Regional professional learning institutes
  • Annual IEFA Spring Institute at Museum of the Rockies - FREE day of professional learning, with new topics each year.  May 2020’s institute will include a tribe-specific roundtable discussion with members of a Montana tribe.  
  • Collaborate with surrounding districts to bring an institute to your area and share costs

• Vetted IEFA resources and books
  • ​Check out books for your classroom from our book tubs
  • Leveled book list

• Professional learning mini sessions

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NEW! PROFESSIONAL LEARNING MINI SESSIONS

View these videos and slides to spark new ideas, gain resources, and get a taste of the content of some of our IEFA workshop sessions.

• ​Bison Culture [video 22:20] [slide deck]​
• Mountain Spirits: Sheepeaters [video 7:29] [slide deck]
• Pictographs & Petroglyphs to Poetry [video 7:26] [slide deck]
• Using Visual Thinking Strategies [video 18:53] [slide deck]

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2018-19 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITES 
- updated Feb. 20, 2019 -

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To schedule an IEFA professional learning session at your school, please contact:

Melissa Tovaas
Director of Education Services
office ​(406) 624-3336 ext. 2
cell (646) 831-7264
mtovaas@mt-schools.org