SHI ALASKA CONFERENCES.

Welcome to Our Cultural Landscape, Sealaska Heritage’s eighth culturally responsive education conference. This event provides educators and administrators with a deep understanding of culturally responsive education and equips them to transform their classrooms, pedagogy, and curriculum to fully support all students’ success—especially those who have been historically underserved, disenfranchised, and marginalized by colonized systems.

Educators, administrators, university faculty, and community members are all welcome and encouraged to attend. Attendees will find engaging and informative sessions to support their thinking around culturally-responsive and sustaining pedagogies for K–12 and university settings, critical theory, place-based education, and possibilities for indigenizing curriculum and building safe social environments for all learners.

The conference is scheduled August 6-8, and will be offered in person at Centennial Hall, in Juneau, Alaska, with featured elements available virtually. The theme of this year’s event is Strength in Unity: Innovating Together for Culturally Responsive Education. 

Teacher Awards

(Nominate an Educator)
SHI is accepting nominations for educators of distinction in an effort to highlight the extraordinary role they play in students’ academic, emotional and cultural success. People who serve as teachers, educational support staff, administrators, coaches or community members whose work is of such high quality to merit recognition are eligible to be nominated.

Art & Educational Resource Market  

(Apply)
SHI will feature emerging and established artists and educational resource creators at the conference. Artists are invited to sell their work, share educatoinal kits and resources, and demonstrate their process by creating during the event. Alaska Native artists are encouraged to apply.