Tuba City Unified School District Native Language & Culture Program

LaVernda Whitehair
Secretary
Tuba City Elementary

Vacant
Nizhoni Accelerated Academy

Our program is driven by the implementation of the Education Plan. TCUSD #15 schools may request from the JOM program in the following areas:

• Cultural presentation by Consultants.
• Cultural relevant resources, materials, and artifacts.
• College and Career Readiness.
• Student field trips
• Family Cultural learning
• Parental Cost

Bureau of Indian Education Johnson O’Malley Program (BIE-JOM)
The supplemental educational Johnson-O’Malley (JOM) Program is authorized by the Johnson O’Malley Act of 1934 and the implementing regulations are provided in 25 CFR Part 273. As amended, this Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into contracts with States, schools, and private nonsectarian organizations, and to expend appropriated funds in support of eligible Indian students under such contracts. Federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations are also eligible to apply for JOM contracts. A local JOM program operates under a BIE approved individual educational plan. The JOM educational plans include objectives designed to address the educational needs of eligible American Indian and Alaska Native students, which offers them various opportunities. It may include cultural enrichment, tribal language program, academic assistance, and dropout prevention programs. The JOM assistance grants provide these students with resources to meet their unique and specialized educational needs to help them stay in school and increase their chance of success, and afford parents the opportunity to become and remain involved in their child’s education.

Navajo Nation Johnson O’Malley Plan of Operation; Section II: Purpose (NN-JOM)
The Department of Johnson-O’Malley provides supplemental funding, pursuant to 25 CFR Part 273-Johnson-O’Malley Program for eligible Native American students in public schools, tribal organizations, Indian corporation and previously private schools with unique and specialized educational supports and opportunities i.e. substance abuse counseling, teacher assistants, tutoring program, home school liaison, summer schools, curriculum development, Navajo language/culture enrichment, and other necessary supplemental programs. These programs are implemented with active parental involvement through subcontracts to establish a local Indian Education Committee (IEC) as provided for by 25 CFR Section 273.16, (and related provisions thereof) to conduct needs assessments, planning, development, implementation and evaluation.

Tuba City Unified School District #15 (TCUSD #15) Johnson O’Malley Program
The Navajo Nation Johnson O’Malley Program office contracts with our TCUSD #15 to provide JOM programming. Two requirements for implementation are the establishment of an Indian Education Committee (IEC) and that an Education Plan is created and accepted by the Navajo Nation JOM program. This Education Plan has goals and objectives to meet five support service components, which are developed by utilizing a needs assessment that is completed each year, IEC school visits, input from parents, and data from district report(s). Our students, parents, teachers, and schools benefit from the JOM program.

Eligibility for TCUSD #15 JOM

• Enrolled TCUSD #15 students; Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12
• Students and/or Parents membership in a federally recognized tribe
• A copy of the student certificate of tribal membership must be on file in JOM office and school.