Keres Children'S Learning Center

“The form 990 is presented to the board of directors for review and approval prior to submission filing.”

“The conflict of interest policy, adopted december 12, 2017, requires all board and committee members to annually confirm in writing that they have read and understand the policy. They are also required to disclose all businesses or other organizations, of which they or a member of their family are an officer, member, owner or employee, or for which the member or related party acts as an agent, or from which the member, leader or related party receives compensation or remuneration of any sort, where such business or organization competes with kclc or with which kclc may reasonably in future enter into a relationship or conduct a transaction. The policy also describes how the board chair and other members are to disclose a potential conflict of interest when issues are discussed or voted on, including a requirement to recuse themselves from the meeting and during the discussion and vote. The policy also directs the board or committee to seek alternatives to the proposed transaction to avoid the potential conflict, unless a more advantageous transaction or arrangement is not feasible in the circumstances. Documentation of such discussions and votes is to be maintained in corporate records. The policy also directs any board or committee member, who has reasonable cause to believe that a person has failed to disclose actual or potential conflicts of interest, to inform such person of the basis for that belief and afford the member an opportunity to explain the alleged failure to disclose. If, after hearing the member's response and conducting such further investigation as may be warranted, the board or committee determines that the member has, in fact, failed to disclose as required by policy, it shall take appropriate disciplinary and corrective action.”

“The board of directors is responsible for reviewing and approving the compensation for the director of education.”

“The board of directors is responsible for reviewing and approving the compensation for the director of administration annually.”

“Governing documents, policies, form 1023, audited financial statements, and the form 990 are made available to the public upon request within three working days of the date the request was made. Additionally, kclc's form 990 and exempt status may be found on the irs' charity search website.”

“Kclc strives to reclaim our children's education and honor our heritage by using a comprehensive cultural and academic curriculum to assist families in nurturing keres-speaking, holistically-healthy, community-minded,and academically strong students.”

“Language revitalization montessori school the purpose of kclc is keres language revitalization. Keres was used to teach 13 children in all academic subjects in our two classrooms. The primary classroom serves children ages 26 through indigenous-language immersion techniques and the montessori method. The elementary classroom serves children ages 612 through dual-language (keres-english) best practices and the montessori method. Due to the global pandemic, our operations were entirely virtual from 20202021, modified to take place over zoom. Kclcs after-school program was suspended, as was our annual native language symposium. Nevertheless, kclc continued to use an intergeneration approach to language revitalization that involves children, their parents, and community elders in reclaiming the education of our children. Both in our school day as well as through our outdoor classroom, which offers cochiti community members keres-immersion classes in a wide variety of subjects and settings, our teachings immerse children and adult participants in the keres language, which conveys all of our indigenous knowledge systems, relationships, values, beliefs and lifeways of cochiti pueblo. In this way, our children are able access the ways that their ancestors and great grandparents did. It helps the children to build a strong foundation for learning and to integrate keres into their everyday lives. Kclc impacts the wider landscape of indigenous education through (virtual) visits from local and national organizations and participation in state and national discussions about indigenous education policies. Kclc demonstrates that it is possible to create an education that is truly reflective of who we are as indigenous people.”

“Contract mentors/educators 91,598 6,998 0 stipends 60,677 390 50 honorariums 3,925 0 450 total 156,200 7,388 500”