Critical Self-Reflection, Self-Consciousness and Growth

Beliefs about equity
​Offerings include:

AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination)
  • Coach and support schools site teams for effective implementation of AVID systems. Lead and facilitate workshops for AVID school coordinators, teachers, and administrators; training for AVID tutors with support from AVID Center
  • Equity Alliance MN
  • Sourcewell

Classroom Partnerships
  • Elementary classrooms paired across districts for a year-long, standards-based relationship based on cross-cultural understanding
  • school year

Constructing the Innocent Classroom
  • An intensive workshop series that provides context and practical strategies for building relationships with every child, especially children of color.
  • 5 sessions - total 11 hours
  • Equity Alliance MN, Innocent Technologies

Equity Advocates Leadership Cohort
  • Attendees receive training and resources to advocate for equitable environments in their school. Inequities can be hard to recognize in the face of school culture, tradition, and community make up. An Equity Advocate will be supported in both identifying biases and inequities, as well as responding systemically through an equity literacy lens. Offered in Partnership with the Equity Literacy Institute.
  • 4 days
  • Sourcewell

Increase Engagement Through Absent Narratives
  • The Minnesota Humanities Center’s foundational workshop, Increase Engagement Through Absent Narratives, serves as an introduction to the core strategies and concepts of the Humanities Center’s approach to community engagement through absent narratives—those voices or stories often left out or marginalized. Designed for people from backgrounds ranging from education to government to community leadership, workshop participants will exchange insights through personal stories, conversations, and guided reflections. While drawing upon their own experiences, participants will practice strategies that will help them engage others with respect and empathy.
  • 8 hours
  • ​Minnesota Humanities Center

Interactive Theater of Isms
  • Relevant Development Through Active Engagement Grounded in Critical Theory, we provide what we call "informances" where participants are actively involved in experiencing the content and outcomes. Our purpose is to increase awareness and guide reflection leading to systemic change with racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals. We embrace that we all possess some form of privilege.
  • 3 hours
  • Minnesota State University Mankato

Learning from Place: Bdote
  • Spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives. As you experience these places, you will challenge assumptions made about Dakota history and identity and gain a deeper understanding of the significance of places like Pilot Knob, Wakan Tipi, and Mounds Park to this land’s first people.
  • ​7 hours
  •  Minnesota Humanities Center

​MEA Fire
  • A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
  • Education Minnesota

Middle School Business Innovation Academy
Native Youth Leadership Council
  • High school Native American youth meet twice a month plus a monthly special event. Provides a collective voice, develops racial and cultural understanding, leadership, educational equity, and community building
  • 3x/mo throughout the school year
  • Equity Alliance MN

Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) 
​SEED (Seeking Educational Equity & Diversity)
  • a peer-led professional development program that promotes change through self-reflection and interpersonal dialogue, and builds capacity for more equitable curriculum, schools, and communities.
  • 8 3-hour sessions
  • Sourcewell
  • Equity Alliance MN

U.S.History for Educators through African-American, Latinx, and Native Lenses
  • Learn to teach American history including different cultural / racial perspectives.
  • 12 3-hour sessions
  • Equity Alliance MN

Walk in Another’s Shoes: A Simulation Exercise to Develop Understanding of Poverty and Homelessness
  • Simulating the experience of poverty will develop empathy for students and families who attend our schools every day.
  • 4 hours
  • Equity Alliance MN

Youth Executive Board (YEB)
  • a multi-district group of high school students who build bonds through team-building activities, and work to fulfill their leadership and academic potential
  • Sept - May
  • Equity Alliance MN