NEWS AT THE SCHOOL

Our latest video features a group of young singers from the Naywayee School, directed and edited by Patricia Welch and Chelsea Rains-Vega. Watch the 2 minute video of Honor Song below or on Vimeo.

View a video about Nawayee Center School's award-winning garden project,
produced by Tiana LaPointe, a talented young director:

The Star Tribune visited the school in November 2010 and wrote the following: Native American girls learn about growing into strong women at the Nawayee Center School in Minneapolis. A women's health class at the alternative school offers lessons in self-esteem and respect, and how and when to walk away from unhealthy relationships. A culture class helps them find their voices through drumming and singing -- a tradition usually reserved for males. In a recent class, girls sang a ballad, "You Should Be My Man," written by classmate Jodi Vermillion, second from left. "If you sit around the drum, it just like brings joy to you," said one student. "I love the drum and just to sing around it."

See the vIdeo on the Star Tribune site

Our Indigenous Garden Program has received some attention lately from Red Vibe (72K pdf). Listen to a report about it on KFAI. We won the 2010 Youth Garden Grant from the National Gardening Association (72K pdf). And we received the Minnesota State Horticultural Society's State Award in April (60K pdf).

The annual report for Nawayee Center School can be viewed or downloaded here.
Download our 2009 annual report (2.6MB pdf).

A quality review of our academic program by Cambridge Education can be viewed or downloaded here (56K pdf).

Press coverage of Nawayee Center School can be viewed or downloaded below.

Article from "The Alley" newspaper about a new mural at Center School, December, 2008. Click here (912K).

Article from "The Alley" newspaper about Center School, January, 2002. Click here.

Our Good Times School newsletter is available for download below.

Check out "The Good Times at Center School" student newsletter, March 27, 2002. Click Here.

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