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Pausauraq Jana Harcharek

Sep 30, 2026

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And, uh, Jenna, your speech on Saturday.
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I'm going to be talking about the, um, UPF learning framework, uh, back in the early two thousands.
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And actually before that, the, um, folks of the North slope had decided that we needed to have more say over what we teach in our classrooms.
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And it dawned on us that we hadn't ever gone to our own people and asked them what's important.
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What should we be teaching our children? And so we embarked on a multi-year endeavor to ascertain from parents, from elders, from community members, what was important for our kids to know and be able to do by the time they graduate.
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And once that initial work was done, we then convened over the course of a year a group of elders and community members across the generations.
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to really look at content by asking questions about what should females know? What should males know? What should they be able to do? What's important? Through those conversations, what emerged were three themes.

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Anybody else have something we want to share? Jenna.

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