Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Anna.Almore@k12.sd.us.

Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Roberta Bordeaux Long

Superintendent of Schools

  • TCSD Pillar 4:Safe, Healthy, and Culturally Responsive Learning


    Goal4.3: Embrace and Integrate Lakota Culture and Values

Ptáyela Waúŋspeič’ičhiyapi

We are learning together.

OSEU

Cultural Responsive Team

The CRT goals to help staff to:

  1. Integrate the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings and Standards and Grade Level Expectations across all content areas.

  2. Integrate culturally responsive instruction by using Sicangu Indigenous Principles of Learning.

  3. Foster and strengthen students’ identity development through Lakota culture, values, and language as the core of students’ experiences at TCSD.

  4. Build cultural competency for our students, teachers, staff, and educational leaders.

Očeti Sakowin Essential Understanding (OSEU) Curriculum Education Policy

Policy

All Attendance centers within the Todd County School District will implement the OSEU curriculum standards across each content area for all K-12 curriculum currently approved by the Todd County School District Board of Education. The Superintendent along with the Educational Administrative Team will provide professional development and will devise a tool for evaluation to demonstrate the success of the implementation of the OSEU standards throughout the K-12 curriculum currently approved by the Todd County School District Board of Education. A written report will be given by each attendance center quarterly with evidence that the OSEU standards are being implemented and met as appropriate per grade level of education to the Todd County Board of Education.

ADOPTED: November 23, 2020 REVISED: August 14, 2023

2026 - 2027

Expectations for OSEU Integration

Oceti Sakowin Essential Understanding Standard Expectations

TCSD Pillar 4: Safe, Healthy, and Culturally Responsive Learning Environment

Goal: 4.3: Embrace and Integrate Lakota Culture and Values

  1. All teachers will integrate one OSEU-aligned lesson or set of lessons once a month.

  2. Grade level expectations will be shared with all K-8 teachers.

  3. All schools will use an OSEU implementation tracker. The tracker will be completed at the end of each quarter by building principal.

  4. Principals will observe one OSEU lesson formally or informally and ensure that all teachers are completing and tracking their lessons.

  5. All schools determine a time to review the Sicangu Indigenous Principles of Learning and reflection tool with staff during the first semester of the 25-26 school year.

  6. All schools will use Albert White Hat's Orthography. Adopted by the Todd County School Board in October 2023.

Creating a Culturally Responsive Classroom

  1. Build and foster relationships with students, families, and the local community

  2. Acknowledge culture and identity as inseparable in instruction

  3. Integrate local stories

  4. Integrate social-emotional supports that are culturally relevant

  5. Cultural representation in schools and classrooms