Teacher stories, interviews, and videos related to family engagement with schools.

Benjamin Grignon | Teaching within the Menominee Indian Reservation

I was full-on ready to be a full-time artist. And then I was invited to be a teacher at a summer institute in Denver, through the Native American Youth Outreach Program. I think it was seeing those kids connect to our traditional arts — part of our cultural inheritance that they had little exposure to before. It was seeing kids connect to our indigenous ways that changed me.

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