The U.S. Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), held the 2015 Native American and Alaska Native Children in School (NAM) Directors Meeting in Washington, DC from September 8-9, 2015 at the HQ-LBJ Building on Maryland Avenue. This meeting was held in conjunction with the ATLAM and Language Summit. The meeting included implementing program activities, learning about annual performance reporting, and hearing about NAM grant updates.

Agenda/Resources

• Agenda

Presentations/Materials

• Welcome/Overview (Libi Gil)

• Evidence Based Culture Expectations (Ruth Neild)

• Evolution Cherokee Syllabary (Roy Boney, Jr., ᎧᏂᎦ ᎪᎳᎭ)

• Implementing Uniform Guidance (Phillip Juengst and Ron Petracca)

• Input Output Nuts and Bolts (Francisco Lopez and Fengju Zhang)

• Research and Program Evaluation (Jacob Tsotigh and Gary Cook)