Influencing the Socio-Political Context

Policy
Offerings include:

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) 

• A community-led school planning process to identify equity strategies to address local opportunity gaps.
• 12-18 months
• Minnesota Education Equity Partnership

​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