Community and Place-Based Education (BA) and Teacher Education K-8 (Graduate Certificate)
04/12/2025
Everyone help me congratulate Ms. Furlong. She completed her last evaluation as a student teacher.🎉🎉College Gate’s Yup’ik Immersion said, “Keep sending me student teachers like that!”
💛💙 APU Proud💙💛
03/27/2025
Join us for a Lil' Scholars Workshop on Saturday, April 12th, from 1:00-3:00 pm. Scan the QR Code to register. PLEASE SHARE
02/23/2025
The Education Program at APU sends a sincere Quyana to The Alaska Native Tribal Health consortium for facilitating the Alaska Blanket Exercise for our future educators and guests. EVERY Alaskan Teacher should attend this ceremony prior to teaching. 
Preparing Educators with Trauma-Informed Pedagogy🕊️
K8 Graduate Teacher Education candidates
Community and Place-Based Education students
BSSD and LYSD ACATE Teacher Apprentices
01/26/2025
Help me congratulate and welcome Alicia Kniest to our Community and Place-Based Education program.
12/09/2024
Help us welcome APU’s FIRST Teacher Apprentices through A-CATE (Alaska Competency Apprenticeship for Teacher Education). These teacher apprentices represent the Bering Strait School District from Savoonga, Gambell, and Wales. 
10/27/2024
Alaska Pacific University has launched the A-CATE (Alaska Competency-Based Apprenticeship Teacher Education) program with Bering Strait School District. We welcomed our Field Experts from the village to campus for professional development this weekend. Spring 2025 apprentices begin.
Gambell
Savoonga
Wales
Get Ready for Transformative education that blends Indigenous and Western knowledge grooming new teachers!
Contact us for more information. Alaska students deserve high-quality educators in Village and road system schools who are part of the community ensuring the preservation of language, culture, and ways of being coupled with Western academic preparation. APU is leading the way! Join us!
10/07/2024
What: Lil' Scholars Workshop: Building Literacy and Writing Skills through Civic Lessons
Who: Students 4th-6th grade (limit 15)
When: Saturday, October 19
Time: 11 am- 2
Where: Alaska Pacific University Kellogg Campus FIELD School in Palmer
Cost: FREE
Contact: Dr. Katie Archer Olson .edu with Questions.
***Bring Bag Lunch***
Lil' Scholars Workshop Check out this Presentation designed by Katie Olson.
10/04/2024
Panelist highlight for Indigenous Peoples day…. Voices of Taino leaders…
When: Monday, October 14th
What time: 10 am
Where: Zoom (pm for link)
Topics Covered:
Taino Music: Juan Escudero
Taino Greeting and Brief Intro to who we are as Taino people: Tekina Tai Pelli
Reading of the Journal of Columbus and ways we maintained our identity and language despite colonization:
Dr. Katie Idalia Archer Olson
The Paper Genocide of the Taino People: Dr. Ellen Fernandez-Sacco
The revitalization movement with Taino people: Dr. Lizette Rivera
Learn 5 Taino words/phrases, traditional foods and cultural practices: Bibi Lillian Kanariní Aragonés
Q&A