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- Will dramatically improve school
attendance (a major problem now in almost all Native schools)
- Starts each day with students
educationally expectant
- Teaches, then encourages Native youth to
maximally use two of their most powerful learning strengths
- Vocabulary is a tool that is
useful for the student's entire life
- Enriched vocabularies make each
student's reading easier and more enjoyable, resulting in students reading
more
- Success breeds success.
Smart-Words allows students with low self-image to quickly achieve on
the same level as other students, improving self-confidence.
- Increased vocabularies will improve each
student's writing abilities
- Builds a vocabulary-rich student
population
- With parents helping (and learning) the
Smart-Words, the entire family can become vocabulary enriched
- The economic playing field for the
financially poor student will be leveled, leading to more content and more
educable students
- The local Native economy will be
stimulated
- Vocabulary acquisition will result in
improvements in all other academics
- Will greatly improve Native students'
reading abilities and also a new willingness to read publicly
- Can increase the involvement of
tribal/band council members in their schools' activities (Example:
Tribal leaders personally reading the daily Smart-Words)
- Will educate hundreds of students
simultaneously in just twenty minutes a day
- Almost all of the program funds go
directly to the students
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