Lakota Summer Institute

The Lakota Summer Institute is the premier Lakota and Dakota language teacher professional development event in the country. Since 2007, over 300 teachers from more than eight reservations and ten states have participated. Reviews and feedbacks from the LSI training are always exceptional. It is a professional training experience that has consistently exceeded all expectations and surpasses all previous training events in terms of depth of content. Teachers leave LSI feeling empowered with new knowledge, techniques and tools. Well-trained LSI teachers have a direct impact on the amount of Lakota and Dakota language successfully taught in the classroom and on improved test scores.