Educational nonprofit Learning Point Alaska, Inc. has received over $500,000 to support the Hooper Bay Charter School. The school is in the traditional Central Yup’ik village of Hooper Bay in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Learning Point is backed by the Sea Lion Corp., a federally recognized Alaska Native organization that supports the charter school.
“This grant honors a dream that the people of Hooper Bay have for their students to accomplish big things in science through the Yup’ik perspective, values and traditions,” said HBCS Principal Jamie L. Wollman. “I am happy to be a small part of their journey.”
The grant will provide a high level of training for staff in the collaborative and interdisciplinary instructional methodology to support a STEM (science technology, engineering and math) and dual-language focus. It will also support development of a week-long multidisciplinary place-based and culturally responsive science curriculum, allow for training of at least three local Alaska Native teachers and provide resources for community events to showcase locally relevant and science-based student learning for the community.
