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Administration in Navajo Reservation Schools
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Chapter I - Introduction

This book has been written as a small step in providing school administrator's, and others who may be interested, information dealing with the differences that exist between school administration on the Navajo Reservation and school administration off the Navajo Reservation.

Every school administrator must meet state and/or NCA requirements. But meeting those state and/or NCA requirements do not adequately or fully prepare a school administrator for work on the Navajo Reservation. The Navajo Nation is a sovereign nation with its own culture, laws, and way of life.

This book is an effort to fill the void. Some day, hopefully soon, the Education Committee of the Navajo Nation will establish their own certification requirements for school administrator's working on the Navajo reservation. This action certainly is in keeping with the responsibilities of a sovereign nation and the operation of a functional Department of Education.

It is important to note that this publication, as every publication I've written, contains my thoughts, my hopes, and my fears. The thoughts contained may not necessarily be the proper or best thoughts. Every student is urged to think for himself/herself and disagree with many if not all of the positions I've taken.

You write with your mind but you think with your heart. The positions taken in this book maybe wholly or partially unacceptable to all or certain students. This is as it should be. I encourage every student to think for himself about the issues discussed in the book and to come up with their own position. This book represents one of the whole gamut a possible positions and can serve as the basis of departure and discussions.

This book was written to serve as to guide for school administrators on the Navajo reservation. There are three major systems involved in Navajo education there are: Public Schools, BIA Schools, and Contract/Grant Schools. In the past, these schools operated their independent and separate empires with little communication between each systems. Whether, as has been stated by Bureau of Indian Affairs officials, BIA schools cease to exist in the future, the fact remains BIA schools are separate, distinct, and competing system of education operating on the Navajo reservation.
 

Dr. Bob Roessel
2004
 

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