2024 THE LODGE APPROACH EDUCATORS’ CONFERENCE
Let’s Ignite Student Success
Partnering with the Northern Cheyenne through ahtove.org: Lesson plans and primary sources for teaching about Native American culture
Looking for more authentic, engaging, and contemporary ways to teach about Native American culture? Come see lesson plans, primary sources, augmented reality, music, art, dance, stories, and artifacts that can make your learning come alive. Explore ways that Native American education has been incorporated into university & K-8 curriculum. See lesson plans and artifacts from culturally sustaining lessons taught to 4th graders in Alliance City Schools in Ohio using the ahtove.org website. All resources will be made available to participants through ahtove.org.
Dr. Mary Beth Henning & John Bennett
Dr. Mary Beth Henning has over 20 years of experience as a professor of social studies education. She taught for 17 years at Northern Illinois University and is now a professor at The University of Mount Union. Mary Beth specializes in interdisciplinary K-12 instruction that promotes critical thinking and intercultural understanding. She presents her research and curriculum/instructional innovations locally and nationally. She has published more than 25 different peer-reviewed articles, as well as edited a book, in the field of social studies education. She helped plan the first Lodge Approach Conference and an Education Symposium at The University of Mount Union featuring Northern Cheyenne students and elders. Her preservice teachers at Mount Union have been writing and teaching lesson plans using ahtove.org. Mary Beth earned her bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Urban Studies from The College of Wooster, her master’s degree in Education from The University of Toledo, and Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State.
John Bennett has over 40 years of experience as a teacher. After retiring from the Akron Public Schools, where he was the 2012 APS Teacher of the Year, he joined The Lippman School as an embedded technology specialist. While at The Lippman School, John has been heavily involved in bringing student, faculty and community groups to the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. John is passionate about using technology to bring cross cultural learning into experiential education that targets a technologically savvy student base. John has presented at numerous local, state and national technology conferences. He was part of the working group of the National Education Technology Plan 2010 and is the creator of the problem based learning unit for walkportagepath.org. John has a B.S. in Elementary Education and a Masters in Educational Administration from The University of Akron.