Emerging Multilingual Learners (EML, often called “English Learners”) and students from immigrant families are the…
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Events
2020 Annual Meeting
Join us online for our Annual Meeting on December 11th! You have played an essential…
Race Equity
How one St. Paul school is centering race equity
Carrie Bakken, program coordinator and educator at Avalon Charter School in St. Paul, shares how…
Race Equity
Fighting the virus of racism in education requires courageous leadership
By Carlos Mariani Rosa and Nanette Yurecko As schools reopened this year with hybrid and…
Race Equity
Why Belonging is Essential for Building Race Equity in Education
With summer (finally) here , it’s an important time to reflect on MnEEP’s work in…
A global perspective on culture and community
By Adrienne Benjamin (Amikogaabawiikwe) I recently was selected as one of 50 “Young Cultural Innovators”…
Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (REEEN)
Leading with an equity lens: Lessons from REEEN in the MN education ecosystem
Education leaders, community members, and students comprise the Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (REEEN) to inform important equity planning in Greater Minnesota. We have learned a lot from these partnerships and from our role in building the capacity of leaders and communities to use an equity lens in their equity planning, leading, and systems change work.
Here are some important lessons we have learned, and how we can continue to use them to build race equity in education:
World’s Best Workforce promise: MnEEP’s equity planning model for new district legislation
“The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people…
Equity Scorecard: How to measure progress in education equity
Across the state, both K-12 schools and higher education institutions are increasingly committing to clear equity goals and policies to address educational disparities and systemic inequality. While these are important improvements, they question is often: How are they measuring progress of these new policies and practices to advance race equity?