Fostering Equitable Culture

Respect for multiple experiences, discipline, high expectations
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

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

​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

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