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From ILI Project Coordinator Bob Kovar |
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May 26, 2006 June 30, 2006 |
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Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
June 16, 2005
Here’s what’s been going on this week in ILI-
§ On Tuesday Bob and Ernie went to Mole Lake and met with members of the Sakaogon Education Committee as well as their grant writer to talk about strategies for getting them more involved with ILI so they can consider developing their own community program. It was an excellent meeting and we all left feeling really excited about the possibilities. We talked about some specific program ideas as well as strategies for training facilitators, consulting for grassroots organizing and curriculum development. They are very interested in working with us and we are currently trying to work a way for them to participate in the UW-LaCRosse ILI camp next month-lots going on!
§ We received an email this week from Patty Loew, author, UW professor, producer of Wisconsin Public TV and host of the show “In Wisconsin” and a good Friend of ILI asking us to collaborate with her and her staff on putting together a “One Sky, Two Views” conference next school year here in our area. Patty received a grant to teach middle school students about the sky from the different perspectives of western science and traditional American Indian culture. This conference will be for 6-8th grade students and we will invite all of our students as well as students from other nearby reservations (Forest County and Mole Lake Sakaogon) to experience this unique presentation of understanding the sky. Patty is collaborating on this effort with colleagues from the UW Madison Space Science and Engineering Outreach so this should be an outstanding event. We’ll keep you posted as this new opportunity develops!
§ Our progress on the UW-LaCrosse camp continues really well-ILI staff will be going down to LaCrosse the week before the camp to meet with the LaCrosse staff for some pre-planning and meeting so we can really have an excellent program for the students the following week. This is really turning out to be a great collaboration-the folks down there are great to work with and are very excited about coming up here. Please remind Alice whenever you see her to start planning for good weather now-its never too early J
§ On Wednesday, ILI staff went out for lunch to say goodbye for the summer to Matt White-one of our facilitators. Matt has spent part of the last 2 summers running a camp in lower Michigan for the month of July. He’ll be back in August, but we needed to say goodbye and make sure he left with a very full stomach-it’s a long drive to Michigan and he’s still a growing boyJ Summer is typically a time for ILI staff to take a deep breath, relax, get away and recharge our batteries-some of us recharge differently than others. Matt will be very busy running the camp, but he sure is getting a lot of great experience! See you in August Matt!
§ Bob met today with Mike Dailey at LUHS to discuss ILI next year. We had a great meeting talking about a really widening range of opportunities for ILI as well as support for next year. We went over all of our year-end numbers of students served, surveys, etc-and discussed some action steps we need to take for our hope of having ILI students receive credit for their work in ILI. Lots happening here too-we’ll keep you posted, but some exciting opportunities to take ILI to some new levels next year!
§ ILI In the Media: nothing to report this week.
§ Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
§ Monday July 24-Thursday July 27: UW-LaCrosse ILI Camp
§ ILI/LUHS Transition:
§ Next Transition Day is the first day of school for LUHS freshman.
§ ILI Volunteers:
§ Thanks everyone for helping out!
§ The “Friends of ILI” membership drive: If any of you would like to join “Friends of ILI” just let us know and we’ll send you the materials!
§ ILI Annual Fundraising: We have raised $361,361 of the $392,136 budget for the 2004-06 budget.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
Friday June 9, 2006
Here’s what’s been going on this week in ILI-
§ On Sunday evening and Monday we were part of the annual Lake of the Torches Charity Golf Classic hosted by the Lake of the Torches Resort and Casino-what a great event! Sunday evening there was a reception dinner at the convention center where all of the golfers, the four charities (ILI, Lakeland Sharing Foundation, Special Olympics and the LdF Abinoojiyag Center) and the celebrity pro football players came together. Each charity had a few minutes to address the crowd and we were so incredibly proud of LUHS ILI students Jazmyn Deragon and Tiffany Willey who spoke eloquently on behalf of ILI. They both did a great job-it was not easy as they had to be up on stage at the podium-but they were terrific! They each spoke for a few minutes about what ILI meant to them and to the schools in the area. Then they stayed up on stage as the football players were introduced. Finally, they were together in a large group photo-famous! The next day we were at Timber Ridge Golf course at 6am for a full day of helping at the tournament. We sold raffle tickets during the day-more than $1000 worth!-and had a great time hanging out with some of the football players and community folks who supported the effort. At the end of the day, they drew the big raffle that each charity sold tickets for and ILI volunteers John and Gretchen Spickerman won 1st place! 3rd place went to ILI facilitator Breia Pfaller’s mom-so we were really happy! Thanks to ILI staff and volunteers Dick and Joanie Fahning and Joe and Bev Strauss for being there to help-it was a great day! Our unending thanks go out to all the folks at Lake of the Torches, especially Randy Soulier and Laura Stoffel for all that they do, not only for ILI, but for our community-they are incredibly giving-thanks, we couldn’t do this without your support!
§ On Tuesday Megan and Anne (UW-interns) continued their work on all surveys and evaluations from this past year-and they got all of them completed. We will have the 2005-06 Annual ILI Evaluation Report out soon thanks to their great efforts. Anne and Megan did an excellent job as interns and instantly became part of our ILI family when they arrived here three weeks ago. They experienced ILI from the inside out, from early morning to late night and even overnight! We’re really going to miss you Megan and Anne-thanks from all of us J
§ On Wednesday, ILI staff had a breakfast meeting to thank the interns and then we went up to the Porkies for the day to scout out where we will be taking the UW-LaCrosse folks in July. It was a beautiful day and we laid the groundwork for what we will be doing there when we have 60 people with us next month. Yikes!
§ We received good news this week that one of the programs here at GLITC that has helped to support a portion of Craig’s position will be able to continue that into next year-we’re very excited about this-all thanks to Jeff Muse who is our boss here at GLITC. As many of you know-Craig is just a gifted individual in his abilities in working with youth, we’re so lucky to have him with us. Thanks Jeff J
§ We received $5000 this week LUHS as the final payment of our agreement for the 2005-06 school year. LUHS really has been a great supporter of ILI-not only through financial support but also providing ILI office space inside the high school which enable Craig and Ernie to connect with students and staff on so many levels. Our working relationship/partnership here is a critical piece in the ILI puzzle. Thanks LUHS for your continued support!
§ ILI In the Media: nothing to report this week.
§ Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
§ Monday July 24-Thursday July 27: UW-LaCrosse ILI Camp
§ ILI/LUHS Transition:
§ Next Transition Day is the first day of school for LUHS freshman.
§ ILI Volunteers:
§ Thanks everyone for helping out!
§ The “Friends of ILI” membership drive: If any of you would like to join “Friends of ILI” just let us know and we’ll send you the materials!
§ ILI Annual Fundraising: We have raised $361,361 of the $392,136 budget for the 2004-06 budget.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
June 2, 2006
Here’s what’s been going on this week in ILI:
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We continue to work on our plans for the UW-LaCrosse camp in July. Ernie has been writing the curriculum and we have been trying to work on some of the logistics and details. It's going to be a great new direction for ILI!
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We were contacted this week by the folks from Mole Lake who are very interested in finding a way to make ILI work for them there. They invited us to attend some meetings in June. The Sakaogon Chippewa paid their remaining debt off this week to the mining company for land that was to be mined (a controversy that lasted 30 years), which in turn the mining company gave back to the tribe in the form of an endowment. The money is to be mainly used for education and health issues. We’re excited to see what the possibilities are-we’ll keep you posted.
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Alice, volunteer Joan Fahning, Breia, and Megan and Anne (UW-interns) worked hard this week on tallying up all of our evaluations and year-end surveys for the whole year! This is a huge job-lots of counting-but now we should be able to put our annual evaluation report together and have it ready for anyone to see within the next few weeks. As in the past-the numbers reflect a strong support from parents, teachers and students for ILI.
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We’ve been invited to present ILI at the Wisconsin Indian Education Association board meeting in Keshena later this month. WIEA has been a very strong supporter of ILI and we’re looking forward to meeting with them to share what we did over this past year.
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We found out this week that the Wisconsin Youth Conference we were going to be helping facilitate some activities for on June 14 has been cancelled-we’re disappointed but will continue to work with them (NARCH program at GLITC and UW-Stevens Point) for next year.
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Yesterday and today we helped facilitate an overnight for the LdF/AVW 4th grade classes of Nancy Saykally and Lori Berryman. These two teachers took it upon themselves to organize this experience as an extension of their ILI experience during the school year. Trig’s donated food for dinner last night and the teachers arranged for other food. Craig, Matt, Alice, Anne and Megan did most of the facilitating. The overnight was held at no cost to us at Camp Nawakwa in Lac du Flambeau on Big Crooked Lake. This is really a beautiful setting and many thanks go out to their staff and especially Kirby Peterson their director, for his sincere outreach to the community. We’ll be sending you a write-up of what happened-but thanks Nancy and Lori for making this happen for your kids-they all sure looked happy in the lake together despite the water snake!
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We received $1000 this week from the American Express Gift matching program through their foundation. We have a wonderful “Friend of ILI” who wishes to remain anonymous who helps make this happen-Thank you so much!
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We received $380 this week from UW-EauClaire for our presentation at the annual Adolescents and Families Conference this past April in Cable, WI. Thanks to them for their continued support of ILI and helping us reach out to folks across the state.
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ILI In the Media: There’s a nice article in todays Lakeland Times on last week’s Transition Day. Thanks again to Wisconsin Public Service for helping to make this possible!
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Carry The Torch Golf Classic: You are invited to come join us Sunday evening from 6:30-8:30 at the Lake of the Torches Resort and Casino where there will be a reception for all of the former pro football players and golfers who will be participating in Mondays Carry the Torch Golf Classic. We will have ILI students giving a short presentation on ILI and thanking everyone for helping ILI out through this great event-they will speak shortly after 7pm. On Monday we’ll be at Timber Ridge all day for the event-should be a great day! We’ve sold almost every last ticket of ours-so if you bought a raffle ticket- thank you and good luck we hope you win!!
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Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
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Sunday June 4: 6:30pm-8:30pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic Reception and Dinner. Convention Center.
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Monday June 5: 6:30am-4:00pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic. Timber Ridge Country Club.
- Thursday June 8: UW-Interns leave.
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ILI/LUHS Transition: Next Transition Day is the first day of school for LUHS freshman.
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ILI Volunteers: Thanks everyone for helping out!
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The “Friends of ILI” membership drive: If any of you would like to join “Friends of ILI” just let us know and we’ll send you the materials!
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ILI Annual Fundraising: We have raised $356,361 of the $392,136 budget for the 2004-06 budget.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
2005-2006
Weekly Update
Friday May 26, 2006
Here’s what’s been going on this week in ILI:
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On Monday Bob met with LUHS administration to discuss the 2006-07 school year and deliver our funding request. We had a great discussion and are working on a number of possibilities for enhanced programming-including the possibility of students getting .25 credit through ILI over the course of the year. We’re working on a syllabus to submit. We’ll keep ypou posted!
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ILI staff met most of the day on Monday to discuss our proposed plan for the UW-LaCrosse summer camp. Ernie has put together a syllabus and schedule and we have sent it all down to UW-LaCrosse for them to consider. We’ve got some great ideas and it could be a great program. This is a 3-day camp the last week of July.
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On Tuesday Bob met with AVW and LdF schools to discuss 2006-07 plans with them and deliver our requests-we still have good support from our school partners-we should know soon about the status of our requests.
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On Tuesday ILI staff was in the school forest getting ready for Transition day-lots of last minute details to take care of.
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On Wednesday we held the third annual May Transition Day-a great success-we already sent you the email about it. LUHS ILI students did an outstanding job-all of their work on Wednesday afternoons really paid off!
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On Thursday we were going to go up to the Porkies to scope out our plan for the UW-LaCrosse camp but the weather made us wait. Instead we worked on office work-even getting all of our 4th-8th grade session evals tabulated. Those UW interns are amazing!!
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We got caught up with all of our bookwork, vouchering and budgeting worksheets. Things still look good as we close in on closing out our 8th year the end of June.
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We worked this week on updating the ILI Powerpoint presentation-especially for our meeting with Hayward/LCO school folks today. Bob met at the LCO Tribal office today with tribal education folks and the Hayward school superintendent, a principal and guidance counselor to present ILI and talk about the ways they could do there what we do here. We talked for almost three hours! They are considering their next steps which include identifying folks in their community who could pilot an ILI-like program in their area. We can provide training and consultation on the process.
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We received $500 this week from the Community Church of Boulder Junction. They have supported ILI over the past few years and we are very grateful to their congregation and the faith they have in ILI-thank you!
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ILI In the Media: Nothing to report this week.
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Carry The Torch Golf Classic: We still have a few raffle tickets for this great event that will be held on June 5. There will only be 2000 tickets sold and 1st place will win $500, 2nd place $300 and 3rd place $200! So you have a great opportunity to support ILI and possibly win some big cash at the same time! Let us know if you want to buy some tickets-they are $1 apiece.
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Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
- Thursday/Friday June 1-2: LdF/AVW 4th Grade ILI Overnight.
- Sunday June 4: 6:30pm-8:30pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic Reception and Dinner. Convention Center.
- Monday June 5: 6:30am-4:00pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic. Timber Ridge Country Club.
- Thursday June 8: UW-Interns leave.
- Wednesday June 14: 6:00pm-9:00pm: Wisconsin Youth Conference activity session. ILI staff will lead activities for group of college-bound high school students.
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ILI/LUHS Transition:
- Next Transition Day is the first day of school for LUHS freshman.
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ILI Volunteers: Thanks everyone for helping out!
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The “Friends of ILI” membership drive: If any of you would like to join “Friends of ILI” just let us know and we’ll send you the materials
ILI Annual Fundraising: We have raised $354,979 of the $392,136 budget for the 2004-06 budget.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
Friday May 19, 2006
Here’s what’s been going on this week in ILI
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On Monday Bob was in Red Cliff meeting on the Disproportionality Task Force. This group is looking at reasons why American Indian students with disabilities are labeled so disproportionally compared to their school population size. This small grant is helping Ashland, batfield and Hayward schools look at some solutions. 24 more schools across the state were notified by DPI last week that they were disproportionate and need to take action. This group will continue to meet to try and brainstorm solutions to this issue. In Red Cliff, the main thrust of the conversation gad to do with improving tribal/school relationships and building trust in the community.
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Also on Monday, Ernie and Craig attended a local meeting on truancy. This was an initial meeting to discuss truancy issues and to start to talk about some solution oriented strategies. ILI is attending these meetings to see what we can do to help this situation. More meetings to follow.
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On Tuesday we talked further with UW-LaCrosse about facilitating a 3-day/2-nite camp up here for 38 high school students that are in one of their summer camps. We’re trying to work out the details and by next week we will have a proposal to them. This is an exciting new opportunity for us!
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On Wednesday ILI staff met in the morning to discuss our presentation plan and curriculum. We will be presenting ILI to a number of communities in the near future and we have been discussing our strategies to do this.
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On Wednesday we had our end of the year lunch for all LUHS ILI students. We had a lot of fun-25 pizzas from Pizza Hut went pretty fast considering there was only one contest! At the end of each year we throw this “party” for our LUHS students to thank them for being a part of ILI and to say goodbye to our graduating seniors.
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Ernie gave a talk at AVW to their 7th grade on court systems-but he gave it in a way that allowed students to learn by participation. The activities were fun and it really caught their interest! Lots of great messages in here for students and everyone seemed to really enjoy it.
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Also on Wednesday, our two UW-Madison interns, Megan and Anne arrived for their three week immersion. We are very grateful to have them here-this is the third set of interns from Madison for us and we always enjoy having them become a part of our ILI family. They will be helping us with a lot of things over the next few weeks-many of you will get a chance to meet them!
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Also on Wednesday (a long day!!) we met with lake of the Torches casino staff regarding the upcoming golf tournament to iron out final details. There’s a great list of former NFL players that you can meet at the Casino on Sunday evening, June 4, from 6:30-8:30 or play golf with on June 5 at Timber Ridge CC: Jim Bakken, Bobby Bell, Ted Brown, Carter Campbell, Ron Carlson, Marv Fleming, Noel Janke, Ray Jarvis, Bob Jeter, Gary Knafelc, Larry Krause, Dale Livingston, Bob Long, John Martinkovic, Lee Nystrom, Chris Osswald, Oscar Reed, Dave Robinson, Bill Schroeder, Jerry Stalcup, Deral Teteak and Stu Voigt. Come by and either play or meet the players-its going to be a lot of fun!!
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Thursday we finished our school funding requests for 2006-07. We meet with our school partners next week.
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Thursday morning we oriented our interns to the LUHS ILI office and school forest where Transition day activities will take place next Wednesday. We will be busy preparing for that in the next few days.
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The year-end surveys continue to pour in-so far we have 428 back here waiting to be tabulated! Let us know when your school has them completed and we will be coming by to get them.
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We received $2175 this week from Friends of ILI –we are now well over our goal for this campaign closing in on $15000! Thanks everybody-this is really wonderful.
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We received $300 this week from Pukall Lumber Foundation-they have been an ILI supporter for some years now and we greatly appreciate their continued support!
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We received $250 this week from UW-LaCrosse for our presentation at the Act 31 Conference earlier in April-thanks to them for their interest in having ushare our story at their conference!
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ILI In the Media: Nothing to report this week.
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Carry The Torch Golf Classic: We still have a few raffle tickets for this great event that will be held on June 5. There will only be 2000 tickets sold and 1st place will win $500, 2nd place $300 and 3rd place $200! So you have a great opportunity to support ILI and possibly win some big cash at the same time! Let us know if you want to buy some tickets-they are $1 apiece.
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Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
- Wednesday May 24: LUHS all area 8th grade Transition Day. All day LUHS school forest.
- Thursday/Friday June 1-2: LdF/AVW 4th Grade ILI Overnight.
- Sunday June 4: 6:30pm-8:30pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic Reception and Dinner. Convention Center.
- Monday June 5: 6:30am-4:00pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic. Timber Ridge Country Club.
- Thursday June 8: UW-Interns leave.
- Wednesday June 14: 6:00pm-9:00pm: Wisconsin Youth Conference activity session. ILI staff will lead activities for group of college-bound high school students.
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ILI/LUHS Transition:
- Transition Day is Wednesday, May 24, 2006.
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ILI Volunteers: Thanks everyone for helping out!
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The “Friends of ILI” membership drive: If any of you would like to join “Friends of ILI” just let us know and we’ll send you the materials!
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ILI Annual Fundraising: We have raised $354,479 of the $392,136 budget for the 2004-06 budget.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
Friday May 12, 2006
Here's what's been going on this week in ILI
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The LdF/AVW 4th grade overnight has been rescheduled to June 1-2
at Camp Nawakwa due to the snowstorm-beautiful spring weather eh? -
Last night ILI and YELP hosted the 6th Annual Cultural Fair at the
LdF Convention Center-more than 150 people were there for some great food,
veterans flag ceremony, drum and demonstration powwow and our guest speaker,
DJ Eagle Bear Vanas who gave a very inspirational talk to all in attendance.
Earlier in the day, he gave another talk to LdF school 6th-8th graders that
went really well. He is a really wonderful speaker and his words definitely
got a lot of wheels turning! Thanks to Azael Meza (YELP), Laura Stoffel (LdF
Casino) and the LdF Tribe for their support in making this day a great
success! -
On Monday and Tuesday Bob traveled to Madison for a State AODA
Council meeting and to read AODA Program grant applications written by
schools from across Wisconsin. It was interesting to see that the large
majority of the applications were requesting funds to support
social/emotional activities as a strategy to have an impact on AODA issues.
Most applications cited the importance of leadership training, mentoring,
character building, adult role models etc-many of the components of ILI. At
the very least, affirming that our philosophy and position over the past 8
years plays a valid and important role. -
ILI staff is working on reformatting how we present ILI to other
communities-an important project as in the next few weeks we will be meeting
with folks in Lac Courte Oreilles and Hayward. -
We talked with UW-LaCrosse folks this week about facilitating some
days up here in July for their youth summer camps. We're still trying to
figure out the logistics and if we can make this work. Eventually, we would
like to see if we can hook some of our ILI students for this experience as
it could be another opportunity to expose them to college students and the
importance of education in their lives. -
On Wednesday we met with LUHS ILI freshman/sophomore group and
then again after school with a group for two hours. We continue to train
these students to help co-facilitate during Transition Day on May 24. The
students are very excited! -
The year-end surveys are pouring in! Just in time, next week we
get two UW-Madison interns for 3 weeks and one of their tasks will be to
help compile all of this data. We're hoping with all this great help to get
our 2005-06 Annual Evaluation Report done before school starts in September. -
We met early this morning at LUHS with all of the Transition staff
(teachers and guidance) to discuss May 24 Transition Day. ILI staff,
students and volunteers will be there to help with activities and to help
serve food. Its going to be a great day! -
ILI staff did with the LdF 5th grade this morning.
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We will not be able to write the Indian Health Service Grant we
were interested in. GLITC has a policy that if other tribes are applying for
a grant, we will not compete. We polled the tribes and several are writing
this grant. There are a number of grants out there that ILI is really ripe
to apply for but we have been unable to because of this policy, which we
understand and support. So our strategy needs to evolve. We will be actively
seeking partnerships with Tribes on specific grants over the next year as
well as working to bring together Tribal Ed Directors so we can explain what
we have to offer with ILI. A consortium grant (Indian Demonstration Grant
for example) would benefit all tribes. -
We received $25 this week from Friends of ILI and had a wonderful
meeting with a new "Friend" who wishes to remain anonymous-but is very
interested in our project and may be helping us substantially over the next
few years. -
ILI In the Media: Nothing to report this week.
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Carry The Torch Golf Classic: We still have a few raffle tickets
for this great event that will be held on June 5. There will only be 2000
tickets sold and 1st place will win $500, 2nd place $300 and 3rd place $200!
So you have a great opportunity to support ILI and possibly win some big
cash at the same time! Let us know if you want to buy some tickets-they are
$1 apiece. -
Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
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Wednesday May 17: LUHS 5a-5b lunch period: end of year lunch for
LUHS ILI students. Lotsa pizza! All ILI volunteers and LUHS administration
are invited to attend! UW-Madison interns arrive! -
Friday May 19: 9am-11am: LdF 5th Grade guidance activities
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Wednesday May 24: LUHS all area 8th grade Transition Day. All day
LUHS school forest. -
Thursday/Friday June 1-2: LdF/AVW 4th Grade ILI Overnight.
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Sunday June 4: 6:30pm-8:30pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic
Reception and Dinner. Convention Center. -
Monday June 5: 6:30am-4:00pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic.
Timber Ridge Country Club. -
Thursday June 8: UW-Interns leave.
- Wednesday June 14: 6:00pm-9:00pm: Wisconsin Youth Conference
activity session. ILI staff will lead activities for group of college-bound
high school students.
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ILI/LUHS Transition:
- Transition Day is Wednesday, May 24, 2006.
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ILI Volunteers: Thanks everyone for helping out!
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The "Friends of ILI" membership drive: If any of you would like to
join "Friends of ILI" just let us know and we'll send you the materials! - ILI Annual Fundraising: We have raised $351,779 of the $392,136
budget for the 2004-06 budget.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative
Friday May 5, 2006
Here’s what’s been going on this week in ILI:
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On Monday Bob traveled to Bayfield for the third meeting on disproportionality with regards to American Indian student academic and social achievement in Bayfield, Hayward and Ashland schools. These meetings supported by a small DPI grant. Hopefully, the recommendations that come out of these meetings will help schools decrease these gaps. Some great conversations and sharing at these meetings, and some sound ideas and suggestions.
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On Monday and Tuesday we finished the first draft of our 2006-2007 ILI session calendar. We sent this out to our school partners for their approval and suggestions. If you haven’t already, please let us know if this calendar will work for your school next year-thanks!
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On Wednesday we met with LUHS ILI freshman/sophomore group and then again after school with a group for two hours. We continue to train these students to help co-facilitate during Transition Day on May 24. The students are very excited
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Ernie met this week with LUHS students attending the LUHS Extended Resources program in LdF. We are looking to find ways to work more often and effectively with these students. Lots of great opportunities!
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We have completed assembling and delivering all of our year-end packets for all ILI students, teachers and parents and are already receiving survey responses back.We’re asking that all of these surveys be completed by May 9 if possible. Teachers, please help your students through their surveys-they are brief and should not take longer than 15 minutes. Let us know when you have them completed and we will come and get them. Thanks!
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We have continued our discussions with the guidance people at Hayward High School and Lac Courts Oreilles. They are talking with each other and have asked us to come to LCO on May 25 for a meeting. They are assembling a small group of key stakeholders to attend. We are also talking with LCO about the possibility of partnering on a grant to help support this effort for next school year.
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On Wednesday, we received a call from UW-LaCrosse staff who are interested in bringing a large group of students here for a 3-day camp with ILI staff at the end of July. We’ll be talking with them again next week to try and work out the details.
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We met early Thursday morning at LUHS with all of the Transition staff (teachers and guidance) to discuss May 24 Transition Day. There is a great group of teachers involved at LUHS this year-they will be the incoming freshman’s homeroom teachers for the next 4 years. We discussed how the day will unfold and Kim Wasserburger requested a paragraph from each teacher in the next week or so explaining what they want to do on that day during the two 1 hour sessions they will have alone with their groups. Kim Olson is going to all of the grade schools and will be sharing with them what is expected of their 8th trade teachers that will be there with their students. ILI staff will be there to help with some activities and supervising students who will be helping. Its going to be a great day!
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We met on Thursday with ILI volunteers to discuss our volunteer needs for Transition Day as well as the Golf Classic-it looks like we have it covered!
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The 6th Annual ILI Culture Fair is next Thursday May 11 and we’d like to extend an invitation to you all to attend. It is free and will include food, Powwow and a talk by motivational speaker DJ Eagle Bear Vanas. We sent you a special email for this event earlier today
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ILI staff once again helped with the LdF 5th grade this morning.
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We’re getting active grant writing again: this week we did some tentative work on an Indian Health Service Grant, and sent our annual funding request for 2006-2007 to the LdF Tribal Council. We are contacting all of our school partners for meetings with them regarding next year as well. Finally, we spoke with the Forest County Potawatomi Community Foundation where we made an application last August and have been following up every few weeks. They have a new person there who has told us to re-submit for this year and that he would work with us for next year! So we’re excited about this possibility.
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ILI In the Media: Nothing to report this week.
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Carry The Torch Golf Classic: We still have raffle tickets for this great event-but they are going fast!- that will be held on June 5. There will only be 2000 tickets sold and 1st place will win $500, 2nd place $300 and 3rd place $200! So you have a great opportunity to support ILI and possibly win some big cash at the same time! Let us know if you want to buy some tickets-they are $1 apiece.
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Upcoming ILI sessions and events:
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Wednesday May 10: LUHS ILI sessions (morning and after school)
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Thursday May 11: All day: LdF/AVW 4th Grade ILI Overnight. 5pm-7:30pm. 6th Annual Cultural Fair at the Lake of the Torches Convention Center. Join us for a feast, Powwow and special guest motivational speaker DJ Vanas.
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Friday May 12: LdF/AVW 4th Grade ILI Overnight. Students back to their schools by early release time.
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Wednesday May 17: LUHS 5a-5b lunch period: end of year lunch for LUHS ILI students. Lotsa pizza! All ILI volunteers and LUHS administration are invited to attend! UW-Madison interns arrive!
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Friday May 19: 9am-11am: LdF 5th Grade guidance activities
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Wednesday May 24: LUHS all area 8th grade Transition Day. All day LUHS school forest.
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Sunday June 4: 6:30pm-8:30pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic Reception and Dinner. Convention Center.
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Monday June 5: 6:30am-4:00pm: Lake of the Torches Golf Classic. Timber Ridge Country Club.
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Thursday June 8: UW-Interns leave.
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Wednesday June 14: 6:00pm-9:00pm: Wisconsin Youth Conference activity session. ILI staff will lead activities for group of college-bound high school students.
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ILI/LUHS Transition:
- Transition Day is Wednesday, May 24, 2006.
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ILI Volunteers:
- Thanks everyone for helping out!
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The “Friends of ILI” membership drive: If any of you would like to join “Friends of ILI” just let us know and we’ll send you the materials!
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ILI Annual Fundraising: We have raised $351,754 of the $392,136 budget for the 2004-06 budget.
Bob Kovar, Project Director
Intercultural Leadership Initiative