Native history comes first in every Relentless Feather unit. The computer science students learn is measured against the standards schools already trust. Here is how the two fit together.
Before it is a computer science lesson, every Relentless Feather unit is a Native history lesson.
Every project starts from Tribal history, sovereignty, and identity, connecting to the Native studies understandings that states increasingly ask schools to teach, including the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings (OSEU) used across South Dakota.
Students build a website about a Tribal nation, a treaty, a language, or a community that is theirs. The history leads, and the code that tells that story shows Native students that technology belongs to them, too.
We would be more than excited to walk through specific units with you and your school.
Each unit is reviewed against two frameworks educators already know, so the skills students gain transfer to any classroom, college, or career.
Students plan solutions, write and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and ship working projects, mapped to the CSTA strands for designing and programming software.
Because every project is original and personal, students grow into the ISTE learner profiles as they design, not through a separate exercise.
This crosswalk shows how each piece of student learning maps to a specific standard, in plain language. We report progress by completion, not letter grades, so it is a guide for reviewing growth rather than a scoring sheet.
| What students learn | Standard | Grade-level target (Proficient) |
|---|---|---|
| Computational thinking | CSTA · Algorithms & Design | Breaks a problem into clear steps and builds a working solution on their own. |
| Coding & debugging | CSTA · Programming | Writes working code and finds and fixes errors independently. |
| Concept understanding | ISTE 5 · Computational Thinker | Explains what their code does and why, and applies the idea in a new way. |
| Creativity & design | ISTE 4 · Innovative Designer | Designs original work that meets the goal with their own ideas. |
| Communication & reflection | ISTE 6 · Creative Communicator | Explains their choices, what they learned, and what was hard. |
Level 3, Proficient, is the target. A student does not need to pass it in every row; Proficient across the board means they met the goal of the unit.
Our introductory unit ships in state-specific versions, so the history and place match the students in front of you.
A Minnesota edition of Unit 1, shaped by the Dakota and Ojibwe nations of this land.
A North Dakota edition of Unit 1, centered on the nations of the northern plains.
A South Dakota edition of Unit 1, drawn from the OSEU.
Tell us about your school, district, or Tribal education department, and we will send the full standards breakdown and answer whatever your team needs.