Family and Community Programs for building equity-centered capacity
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CASE FOR CHANGE
Context/Motivation: Importance of equity in achieving goals
Demographics: Impact of demographic change
Disparate Impact: Decisions and choices
Disparate Impact: Navigating systems, system design, and system impacts
Personal Accountability for Equity
Context/Motivation: Importance of equity in achieving goals
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Demographics: Impact of demographic change
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Disparate Impact: Decisions and choices
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
Disparate Impact: Navigating systems, system design, and system impacts
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
Personal Accountability for Equity
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
LAYING THE FOUNDATION
Identity: How your identity impacts your behavior and decision making
Equity: How to talk about equity and its implications
Race: How to talk about race at children's developmental stages
Understand Journeys: Understand the lived experiences of those around you
Identity: How your identity impacts your behavior and decision making
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
Equity: How to talk about equity and its implications
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
Race: How to talk about race at children's developmental stages
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Understand Journeys: Understand the lived experiences of those around you
- Bdote Field Trip, Dakota in the Twin Cities from Minnesota Humanities Center: spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives.
- Increase Engagement Through Absent Narratives from Minnesota Humanities Center: an introduction to the core strategies and concepts of the MHC’s community engagement through absent narratives.
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
FRAMING CHANGE
Cross-Cultural: How to build cross-cultural relationships
Engagement: How to engage stakeholders and participate in decision-making
Leadership: See themselves as leaders, how to be an equity leader
Policy: How policies and regulations reflect equity
Visioning and Planning
Cross-Cultural: How to build cross-cultural relationships
- Bdote Field Trip, Dakota in the Twin Cities from Minnesota Humanities Center: spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives.
- Increase Engagement Through Absent Narratives from Minnesota Humanities Center: an introduction to the core strategies and concepts of the MHC’s community engagement through absent narratives.
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Engagement: How to engage stakeholders and participate in decision-making
- Bdote Field Trip, Dakota in the Twin Cities from Minnesota Humanities Center: spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives.
- Designing for Diversity from Equity Alliance MN: blending theory and case-based practice, participants learn an equity-centered approach to engage diverse stakeholders.
- Increase Engagement Through Absent Narratives from Minnesota Humanities Center: an introduction to the core strategies and concepts of the MHC’s community engagement through absent narratives.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
Leadership: See themselves as leaders, how to be an equity leader
- Designing for Diversity from Equity Alliance MN: blending theory and case-based practice, participants learn an equity-centered approach to engage diverse, under-represented stakeholders.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
Policy: How policies and regulations reflect equity
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Visioning and Planning
- Bdote Field Trip, Dakota in the Twin Cities from Minnesota Humanities Center: spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives.
- Increase Engagement Through Absent Narratives from Minnesota Humanities Center: an introduction to the core strategies and concepts of the MHC’s community engagement through absent narratives.
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- What Is Race Equity? from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership
MAKING CHANGE
Curriculum, Culturally-Relevant: See themselves in curriculum; create policies on cultural relevance
Decision Making: Using equity in decision making; holding district accountable
Evaluation-Assessment: Evaluate and assess organizational equity
Implementation and Outcomes: Advocate for equitable learning environments, accountability, oversight
Intercultural Competence
Learning Environment: Culturally responsive teaching, intervention, and discipline: delivering and measuring
Curriculum, Culturally-Relevant: See themselves in curriculum; create policies on cultural relevance
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Decision Making: Using equity in decision making; holding district accountable
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Evaluation-Assessment: Evaluate and assess organizational equity
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
Implementation and Outcomes: Advocate for equitable learning environments, accountability, oversight
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Intercultural Competence
- Interactive Theatre of ISMs from Minnesota State University - Mankato: in a safe learning environment, increase awareness and reflection around tough issues such as racism, sexism and other forces that work to diminish rather than empower individuals.
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
- Race Equity and Excellence in Education Network (R.E.E.E.N) from Minnesota Equity Education Partnership: A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
Learning Environment: Culturally responsive teaching, intervention, and discipline: delivering and measuring
- MEA FIRE from Education Minnesota: A comprehensive collection of professional development and community learning experiences to develop equity literacy and an anti-racism growth mindset.
