Education Programs at APU

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 @alaskapacific.edu with Questions.
***Bring Bag Lunch***

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