Seminar: Educating About and With Technology: Empowering Indigenous Students and Communities
Program: TLSI
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade Level: 6th
Year of Publication: 2025
Abstract
This curriculum unit, Apache Narratives and Digital Media: A Culturally Responsive Approach
to Reading Development, was designed to bridge traditional Apache storytelling with 21st-
century literacy skills. By integrating digital media with oral histories and cultural narratives, the unit seeks to strengthen reading development while honoring and sustaining Apache identity, language, and ways of knowing. Andre Pineda credits his students and community as the
inspiration behind this work, as their voices, experiences, and stories continue to shape his
teaching.
This curriculum is offered with the hope that it will serve as a resource for educators working to connect academic growth with cultural relevance, and as a tool to affirm the power of Indigenous knowledge in today’s classrooms.