Event Details - Nuwapunam: Teaching for Past, Present, and Future, with Brad Lopes, Program Manager, Native American Teacher Retention Initiative

The Native American & Indigenous Studies Program and faculty from the College of Education present Nuwapunam: Teaching for Past, Present, and Future, with Brad Lopes, Program Manager, Native American Teacher Retention Initiative, on Friday, April 19 from 10am-12pm in Burnell Hall, Room 132B. Brad will discuss how any teacher and any student can benefit from learning about Native culture and histories.

Brad Musquantumahsq Lopes is an Aquinnah Wampanoag citizen and educator working in his sister community of Mashpee as the Native American Teacher Retention Initiative (NATRI) Program Manager. Graduating in 2017 from the University of Maine at Farmington with a degree in Secondary Education: Social Studies and a minor in Psychology, Brad has spent over five years teaching and working on inclusive, decolonized curriculum in school and museum settings. In the last two years he has also worked at the Aquinnah Cultural Center and Plimoth Patuxet Museums, as well as a consultant on other projects, to further expand on the need for indigenized, community-driven curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Brad now oversees the NATRI Grant in the Mashpee Wampanoag Education Department and hopes to work toward educational spaces that are more like home for Indigenous teachers, staff, and students.