Education

♦ Provide a balanced daily program of child initiated and adult directed activities, including individual and small group activities.

♦ Involving parents in the development of the Blackfeet Early Childhood Center’s curriculum and approach to child development and education.

♦ Provide parents opportunities to increase their child’s observation skills and share assessments with staff that help plan the learning experience.

♦ Support social and emotional development through planning routines and transitions.

♦ Ensure opportunities for creativity, self expression through activities such as art, music, movement, and dialogue.

The Early Childhood Center is committed to develop social, physical, mental, and intellectual development through Blackfeet Bilingual
Education concepts.

We are mending the Broken Circle of the Blackfeet Language. If our children can once again speak and understand their own tongue, the beliefs and values our elders taught us will, once again, be transmitted to the young; and our language, beliefs and values will survive.

Children and their parents must first see that the Blackfeet Language has a place in the Early Childhood Center and it must be followed through to the Public Schools. In doing this, the language will gain renewed respect, and families will be proud to speak their language.

Our Native tongue is the quality, which identifies us, as being of the Blackfeet Nation or of Native people of all tongues.

A Pledge of Commitment for Children

I pledge to…

♦ See, hear, and communicate positively with children.
♦ Be a positive role model for children.
♦ Support stable family life for children.
♦ Help build safe and caring communities for all children.
♦ Speak out for children and advocate effective groups that help them.
♦ Ensure all children fair opportunity.
♦ Make at least one child’s life better by something I do.
♦ Pray for and see good in all children and youth.