The National American Indian, Alaskan, and Hawaiian Educational Development Center is a long-term collaboration of individuals and organizations throughout the United States to support improved education for American Indians, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians and other indigenous peoples throughout America.

The Foundation for Comprehensive Early Literacy Learning is a major collaborator with the Center and provides long-term and intensive development for teachers focusing on the school change process. With an emphasis on good first teaching, the CELL Foundation supports teachers improve instruction in literacy learning, content area study,assessment, and classroom organization and management. The development of this center is a direct outgrowth of work initiated by the Foundation
with Native American and Hawaiian Schools more than ten years ago.