Indian Education in America can go where it has never gone before: Into a time when every Native American child can read, write, and do math, as well as, or better, than any other child in America. Whether the child's address is Lake Forrest, Illinois, Laguna Beach or Beverly Hills, California, or Newcomb, New Mexico or Kyle, South Dakota, the key to America's future lies in providing an essential education to every child. The essential mission in Indian Education is to enable each child to reach his/her full potential in spirit, mind, and body, by providing each child with essential skills in reading, writing, math, and thinking, assuring that they achieve at or surpassing the national norms and standards, by providing a bridge between the culture of The People and the culture of the larger society, by motivating, coaching, and inspiring our children to be morally, physically, and mentally fit, by instilling the values of hard work, the determination to succeed, a strong immunity to failure, and focusing totally on the task ahead, by providing our children with enthusiasm, energy, commitment, and passion for learning and achieving success, by teaching every child the way that each child learns, by creating the necessary connections between the world of the classroom and the real world and the real world of work, and by providing our students with the technological skills necessary to survival in the 21st Century. We can and we will provide Native American children with a world class educational environment. A world class educational environment has outstanding educational leaders, dedicated and fully credentialed teachers, an outstanding curriculum that stresses high academic achievement with high expectations for student success, a faculty that is constantly dissatisfied with their instructional strategies, are always learning, and constantly striving to meet each child's needs, a system where the largest amount of teacher's time is spent on instruction and the largest amount of the student's time is spent on learning, where time on and dedication to task is the focal point, where students and teachers are safe, and where students interact with each other and with the local community. A world class school system provides students with the finest facilities, libraries, technological equipment, and sports facilities. Bricks and mortar are not everything, yet our children must learn under acceptable conditions.We become a world class community in stages. In the first stage, we change the signs on our schools to read: Our School, Striving to be A World Class Educational Community. Immediately, students, parents, faculty, and administrators will stand a little taller, their backs will be a little straighter, and the mental quantum leap into school improvement will begin. The next stage, a few years and a lot of work later, will have the slogan: Our School, Becoming a World Class Educational Community. The final stage will have the slogan changed to: Our School: A World Class Educational Community.