Core Values

Academic Relevance at NISN is the lens and guide on learning that anchors (core/anchor/guide/framework) curriculum in students’ cultural experiences, histories, and languages.

Healthy identity development is an ongoing process of growth in self awareness, understanding, actualization and resiliency that includes one’s culture, race, beliefs, land, and social impacts.

Understanding the interconnectedness of the physical, mental, emotional and community wellness within a person, community, or organization. Ex: Including but not limited to land, ceremony, songs, language and being.

Throughout a NISN school’s existence from the fellowship selection through school design and realization of the school, NISN works with school administrators to ensure that community voices are consistently elevated in the conversation to provide cultural relevance in curriculum, operations, policy and procedure, instructional practices and more. In this way, we are a community led organization.