SPPS Community Education offers a variety of classes designed for adults with developmental disabilities to explore interests, meet with peers, have fun and learn new skills!
School Age Child Care
Where families learn & grow together.
1/2 Day Nature-based Pre-K
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Grades K-5. Learn the very basic quillwork stitch using paper straws. Bring home a necklace or a bag!This course is fully subsidized through grants from the American Rescue Plan.
Katie Jo Bendickson / Wóokiye wiŋ is Sisseton Wahpeton Dakhóta. She has received a Bachelor of Arts in American Indian Studies with a Language Track from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. She has taught pre-school and high school in Saint Paul MN, as a Dakota Language instructor. Her mentor for the Dakota language was the respected elder Caroline Schommer of Upper Sioux Community.
Currently, Wóokiye wiŋ is a teacher and free-lance artist making jewelry, illustrating books, paintings and Dakota language curriculum. Her current hide-painted earrings are featured at Indigenous First gallery in Duluth, MN. She is a 2023 poetry contest winner for Public Art Saint Paul Sidewalk Poetry. She uses both her Dakota and Ojibway background to influence her designs in her art. Much of her young life was spent on her mother’s reservation, Fond du Lac Reservation in northern Minnesota before her family moved to her father's Reservation at Upper Sioux Community in southwest Minnesota.
Wóokiye wiŋ lives in Saint Paul with her husband and children. Both her parents are artists, and she continues the artist tradition of her family. You may find her work online at www.wookiyewin.com.
Katie Jo Bendickson
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