The Nambé Community School Project teachers' diaries consist of handwritten journals from various teachers and administrators at the Nambe School. All diaries contain lesson plans, names of students, completed assignments, and grades (though there is variation from diary to diary). Most diaries also contain student projects, such as drawings, and occasionally, correspondence between students and teachers. Later diaries offer more detail pertaining to teaching methodologies and record progress and interaction with students. Most diaries contain a class history as well as behavioral notes. Some diaries contain information on teacher visits to students' homes and corresponding discussions of living conditions, languages spoken at home, and educational level of parents. This collection also contains a small assortment of miscellaneous materials pertaining to administrative duties and projects. Most of the diaries are grouped by teacher followed by year. For example, all of the diaries for "Jane Doe" are grouped together and organized by the year they were written. Some items are removed from the diaries and placed in an adjacent folder with each diary (e.g. "Box 1, Diary 1, Folder 1"). Several large drawings are in an oversize folder. Researchers may be interested in reviewing the Nambe Administrative document "Keeping Behavior Journals" (Box 1) prior to reviewing the journals. Broadly speaking, each grade focused on specific curriculum: Prefirst grade: school acquaintances, pets, food, and garden. First: pets and their care, foods at Nambe, clothing, garden plants, insects and animal life. Second and third: reading, flowers and gardening, birdlife, and domestic animals. Fourth and special: plants, animals, and birds of the community, homes, the land. Fifth and sixth: growth/preservation of foods, keeping our bodies well, weather, record keeping, insect control. Seventh and eighth: plant life of the southwest, how the world travels, how the world is clothed, study of New Mexico, soil conservation practices in the southwest. The collection illuminates issues including experimental multicultural education in New Mexico, bilingual education, health and hygiene, gender, community organizations, and a variety of topics and approaches associated with nationalism and post-colonial studies. Some of the diaries include comments and critique of the school by the teacher and/or the community. Most of the diaries are in English, however, there some materials in Spanish. An oversize folder contains several art projects.
