Join Lee & Low and Dezi Lynn (Diné Nation) from the National Indian Education Association on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM ET for a free webinar about building critical foundational and early literacy skills with Indigenous and Native American books.
Learn about the impact contemporary literature that authentically reflects Indigenous and Native American identities and histories can have in primary grades.
Discover strategies to empower Indigenous and Native American young people, and to support the 1 in 10 Indigenous and Native American students classified as English Learners.
This hour-long webinar also introduces Lee & Low’s Drumbeat Decodables series, groundbreaking early reader books to strengthen phonics skills published in collaboration with Indigenous Education Press.
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Join Lee & Low and Dezi Lynn (Diné Nation) from the National Indian Education Association on Wednesday, August 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM ET for a free webinar about building critical foundational and early literacy skills with Indigenous Peoples and Native American stories.
Learn about the impact contemporary literature that authentically reflects Indigenous Peoples and Native American identities and histories can have in primary grades.
Discover strategies to empower Indigenous Peoples and Native American students, and to support the 1 in 10 Indigenous Peoples and Native Americans classified as English Learners.
This hour-long webinar also introduces Lee & Low’s Drumbeat Decodables series — groundbreaking early reader books to strengthen phonics skills published in collaboration with Indigenous Education Press.
About The Guest Speaker
Dezi Lynn is the Educator Initiative Manager at National Indian Education Association. Originally from Coppermine, Arizona and a member of the Diné Nation, Dezi started teaching Special Education in an elementary school in her hometown of Page, Arizona after graduating with her B.A. in Spanish/English Literature. This teaching position in a district serving a large population of Diné students motivated Dezi to obtain a Master of Education in Mild/Moderate Special Education focusing on Indigenous Epistemologies. After teaching in Arizona and Alaska, Dezi relocated to Utah and began teaching as an adjunct instructor at Utah Valley University in the English and History departments. She also obtained experience as a Project Manager with statewide educational technology implementations in Idaho and Utah. Dezi is presently enrolled in the University of Oklahoma, College of Law, Master of Legal Studies, Indigenous Peoples Law program. She is in the program to further understand how policy for Native populations can support the implementation of pedagogies that acknowledge the Native brilliance in our students.
An email with the Zoom link to access the webinar will be sent the day before the live event and then again an hour before the start time.
Attendees will have the ability to enable Closed Captioning in the Zoom platform.
All registrants will receive a link to the recording following the live webinar.
