‘‘(II) conducting outreach; 
‘‘(III) offering courses; 
‘‘(IV) providing conferences; and 
‘‘(V) carrying out other activities; 
‘‘(2) the Piegan Institute of Browning, Mon-
tana, for demonstration of the operation of a Native 
American language nest and Native American lan-
guage survival school; 
‘‘(3) the governing board of Window Rock Uni-
fied School District No. 8 and its Indian Education 
Committee on the Navajo Reservation for dem-
onstration of the operation of Tse´hootsooı´ Dine´ 
Bi’o´lta’ as a Native American language survival 
school; and 
‘‘(4) the Alaskan Federation of Natives, in con-
sortium with other entities as the Alaska Native 
Language Center advises to be appropriate, for the 
conduct of a demonstration program, training, out-
reach, conferences, and visitation programs, and for 
scientific research-based provision of other assist-
ance, in developing— 
‘‘(A) orthographies; 
‘‘(B) resource materials; 
‘‘(C) language documentation; 
‘‘(D) language preservation; 
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‘‘(E) material archiving; and 
‘‘(F) community support for development, 
for diverse languages, and for Native American 
language nest and Native American survival 
school initiatives in the Lower Kuskokwim 
School District and other sites as appropriate. 
‘‘(c) USE OF TECHNOLOGY.—The demonstration pro-
grams established under this section may employ syn-
chronic and asynchronic telecommunications and other ap-
propriate means to maintain coordination and cooperation 
among the programs and with participating Native Amer-
ican language survival schools and Native American lan-
guage nests. 
‘‘(d) SITE VISIT EVALUATIONS.—The demonstration 
programs established under this section shall provide di-
rection to the Secretary in developing a site visit evalua-
tion of Native American language survival schools and Na-
tive American language nests. 
‘‘(e) FOLLOW-UP AND DATA COLLECTION.—A dem-
onstration program established under this section may 
conduct follow-up data collection and analysis on students 
while the students are in school— 
‘‘(1) to assess how Native American language 
survival school students are performing in compari-
son with other students; and 
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‘‘(2) to identify instructional methods that are 
working and instructional methods that are not 
working. 
‘‘(f) ENDOWMENTS AND FACILITIES.—A demonstra-
tion program established under this section may— 
‘‘(1) establish endowments to further the activi-
ties of the demonstration program relating to the 
study and preservation of Native American lan-
guages; and 
‘‘(2) use funds to provide for the rental, lease, 
purchase, construction, maintenance, and repair of 
facilities.’’. 
SEC. 5. NATIVE AMERICAN LANGUAGE EDUCATION ACCESS. 
The Native American Languages Act (25 U.S.C. 
2901 et seq.), as amended by section 4, is further amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 111. DEMONSTRATION OF APPROPRIATE TRAINING 
AND OUTCOMES. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall recognize 
the unique circumstances of education in Native American 
languages and shall provide for the meeting of national 
educational standards through alternative means in the 
area of Native American language education. 
‘‘(b) TRAINING AND QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS 
FOR TEACHERS AND STAFF IN NATIVE AMERICAN LAN-
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GUAGE SURVIVAL SCHOOLS AND NATIVE AMERICAN LAN-
GUAGE NESTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other 
Federal law requiring teacher or educational or ad-
ministrative staff training or qualifications (includ-
ing section 1119 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965), any Native American lan-
guage survival school or Native American language 
nest shall have the option of satisfying Federal re-
quirements of appropriate training and qualifications 
for any of its teachers and staff by demonstration of 
annual satisfactory progress in an alternative certifi-
cation program that the school or language nest de-
velops for its individual teachers and staff members. 
‘‘(2) 
ALTERNATIVE
CERTIFICATION
PRO-
GRAMS.—Such alternative certification programs 
shall— 
‘‘(A) be based on— 
‘‘(i) high academic achievement in 
content areas for contemporary education; 
‘‘(ii) high achievement in the Native 
American language and culture of instruc-
tion; and 
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