This year the Lushootseed Language Teachers have two classrooms at the school. Each class visits one of the classrooms for 40 minutes of Language Instruction.  The teacher to student ratio is 1 to 20.  With the knowledge they have gained on EALR’s and GLE’s, the teachers want to ensure that their work is up to standards so parents, teachers and educational professionals know the time spent with Language Teachers is time well spent.  The lessons are designed to reinforce state and district guidelines for academics, but they are taught in the native language.

 Michelle Myles and Virginia Jones work with the Primary Grade Levels, while Natosha Gobin and Lois Henry work with the Secondary Grade Levels.  Their classrooms have greetings, rules, word walls and the calendar displayed in Lushootseed.  This helps reinforce what the students are learning in their own classrooms and help them realize how much they can use their ancestral language in everyday settings.  The Language Teachers meet with the Tulalip Elementary Staff to ensure that the lessons can be modified to reinforce lessons that are being taught within the school and regular classrooms. 

 The teachers main goal is to ensure that the students have the opportunity to learn their native language and not take time away from their regular academic learning.

 Language teachers participate in school assemblies and can be found participating in just about every before school and after school activity, where they continue to do language outreach providing lessons and materials that parents and community members can work on at home with their children.

 Classes are taught from 9:20, when school starts, throughout the day until 3:20, when school is out.  Teachers then can be found at their office, which is located within walking distance of the school.