The Center for Excellence in Education at Northern Arizona University will work with a consortium of seven Navajo Nation school districts: the Kayenta Unified School District, the Ganado Unified School District The Chinle Unified School District, the Window Rock Unified School District, Rock Point Community School, the Tuba City Unified School District and Little Singer Community School to support new bilingual teachers who were formerly paraprofessionals in their first years of teaching. The project will provide credit bearing coursework leading to an endorsement in bilingual education, English as a Second Language or Navajo as a Foreign Language as well as to a Master's Degree in Bilingual Multicultural Education. The project will offer assistance in implementing the 1997 Division of Diné Education Navajo Language Framework. Over a period of five years 100 Bilingual Master's Fellows will be linked with 14 Mentor Teachers to develop Navajo language curriculum. Mentor teachers, Master's fellows and University faculty will participate in a collaborative effort to increase the availability of Navajo bilingual educators to provide high quality education to limited English proficient students within the local community.