Tribal College Rural Systemic Initiative- Development Grant

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Blackfeet Community College (BCC) proposes to examine past activities of Phase I, look atwhat was learned, and continue into Phase II as a development grant. Phase I efforts indeveloping and maintaining a comprehensive and sustainable systemic reform effort inmathematics, science, and technology fell short of expected activities and BCC has learnedfrom its past activities.BCC will utilize the lessons learned from Phase I activities and will continue to promotethe NSF drivers while at the same time seek current strategies to assist in their effortto have a comprehensive program that will catapult Blackfeet Indian reservation and itsstudents to meet the National standards. Special emphasis will be placed on a holisticapproach to community reform using RSI activities as a springboard for a comprehensivereform effort.There are fourteen K-8 schools (1,814 students) and two high schools (563 students) in theservice area of BCC. BCC will work with eight of these schools in a comprehensive effortfor systemic reform, impacting 1,777 (98%) in the K-8 area and 563 (100%) of the HighSchool students. BCC will work with mathematics and science teachers and administratorsthrough existing channels established during Phase I in setting goals and objectives forPhase I implementation activities. A task force made up of reservation schooladministrators will be chaired by the BCC college administrator and will include allschool administrators of schools served. A mathematics task force will be developed andwill include area mathematics instructors (recommended by school site administrators) andBCC mathematics instructors. It is this group that will examine, recommend, and assessefforts in mathematics. Another task force in the sciences will be formed composed of allservice area science teachers and BCC science instructors. They will work closely withthe science curriculum of area schools and look at how they are involved in the overallreform effort.The Phase II developmental efforts will continue to promote systemic reform in mathand science education at two school districts consisting of six different school buildingslocated in rural Montana. The utmost goal of the program is to develop and maintain apopulation that is prepared to meet the needs of a technologically competent work force.