At the new Knik Cultural Charter School, students will learn traditional skills throughout the year, from berry picking in September to hunting on sea ice in March.
July 31, 2022
The Knik Tribe has spent the last three years planning the Knik Cultural Charter School with the help of a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Indian Education. In December 2021, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District approved a 10-year charter for the school. Shade and other Knik tribal employees conducted surveys among Alaska Native families in the Mat-Su when planning for the school.
“A lot of charter schools start with a K-3 program, and then a year later they’ll add a fourth and fifth grade, and then two years later they’ll add middle school, and then four years, five years down the road they might add a high school,” he said. “It was clear from the stakeholders: They wanted a K-12 right away because that’s really how you build a community.”
Chamblee said the Knik Tribe has a building with a commercial kitchen already on the property, which they’ll use to provide hot meals in partnership with the Mat-Su school district. “It’s very important to us that we reduce as many barriers as we can and give more families access to things they desire and need,” said Isha Twitchell, who heads the school’s academic policy committee.
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