Checklist for New HTL Curricular Units
As you prepare to submit your new curricular unit for publication on the Honoring Tribal Legacies website, please check to see whether your submission:
- includes your name, address, and tribal affiliation(s)?
- states clearly the targeted grade band and discipline? (please note that interdisciplinary units are fine, even desirable, and a collaboration with more than one educator is acceptable)
- aligns with the HTL Curricular Schema (link forthcoming) and the C3 Teachers’ Inquiry Design Model?
- Includes a one-page summary and aligns with the essential understandings of the National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Knowledge 360 essential understandings?
- takes into account the HTL Eleventh Standard? (““Demonstrate environmental stewardship and a sense of service achieved through acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of humanity in historical, cultural, scientific, and spiritual contexts.”)
- takes into account our preference for place-based multiliteracies?
- takes into account our preference for “entry questions” and “essential questions”?
- takes into account our preference for “big ideas” and “enduring understandings”?
- utilizes primary sources (such as Native American Records at the National Archives prepared by Carol Buswell, the Tribal Legacy videos hosted at the University of Montana, our HTL primary sources, and the Indian Reading Series: Stories and Legends from the Northwest, careful not to misrepresent tribes?
- uses terminology and language carefully (or even consciously interrogates terms)?
- contributes to a “journey of healing”?