To foster and facilitate the certification of Navajo speaking teachers from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards:

Activity 1: Recruit Navajo teachers for National Board Teacher Certification; Activity 2: To counsel recruited teachers in assuring certification success; Activity 3: To offer stipends to provide a financial incentive for seeking National Board certification; Activity 4: To offer scholarships to pay all or part of the cost of National Board certification; Activity 5: To offer office space, equipment, seminars, and training to assure applicant success, including word-processing and secretarial assistance.

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To foster relationships between the Navajo Nation and major universities:

Activity 1: Develop relationships with New Mexico State University in the recruitment of Navajo students into university programs; Activity 2: To establish a facility where universities might recruit Navajo students on a regular basis for their programs; Activity 3: To establish a one-stop entry point for all university programs serving the Navajo Nation; Activity 4: To assist universities in the recruiting of life-long learners and continuing education programs; Activity 5: To identify for Navajo students the universities most likely to meet their needs by providing a information and referral service.

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To promote technology and scholarship in Navajo children:

Activity 1: Establish relationships which technology firms and enterprises to promote Saturday school with technology emphasis; Activity 2: Investigate and report on the discrepancies between technology in schools serving Anglo/Navajo children as compared to technology offered to schools serving Navajo children only; Activity 3: Create a corps of summer volunteers and worksites to teach technology to Navajo youth; Activity 4: Purchase, loan, and promote the use of Notebook computers for Navajo children to bridge the “digital divide;” Activity 5: Create sponsorship opportunities to individuals, churches, service clubs, corporations, and others throughout America to provide notebook computers for Navajo children; Activity 6: Build a modernistic and futuristic technology center to hold organizational offices, training rooms, and technology classrooms with multiple use facilities which can host weekend and summer overnight activities;

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To promote educational alternatives to the public schools:

Activity 1: Seek funding for home school centers and training centers for parents as an alternative to a public school system which fails to treat Navajo children with equity; Activity 2: Create workshops, training sessions, and conferences to explore educational alternatives to the public schools; Activity 3: Create Saturday schools to offer technological training not offered in appropriate amounts to Navajo children in the public schools; Activity 4: Sponsor regional conferences and summer camp sessions for parents and children seeking to improve school performance; Activity 5: Work with state school officials and federal education officials to offer alternative type school arrangements that might better serve Navajo students; Activity 6: Work with the public school boards to strengthen equality, nondiscrimination, and justice in hiring, programs, and in training teachers in the understanding of Navajo culture and traditions.

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To promote alternative pathways toward teacher certification for Navajo speaking and Navajo culture applicants:

Activity 1: Build a case for alternative certification of Navajo candidates for teaching placement; Activity 2: Work with local, state, and federal officials to ensure equity in hiring among all minority populations; Activity 3: Disseminate and seek enforcement of the law now in place created by the Bilingual Education Act of 1968 which is not enforced in school districts serving Navajo children; Activity 4: Seek legal redress as needed under United States and state laws; Activity 5: Create a State Plan of Alternative Credentialing of teachers and seek support from state and federal officials.

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