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October 25, 2023
Strengthening Community by Lifting the Voices of Indigenous Special Education Staff Webinar Series
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College encourage Native special education staff, special education staff, administrators, special education directors, special education coordinators, and all others interested to attend a webinar series intended to strengthen community by lifting the voices of Indigenous special education staff.
These focused webinar topics and dialogues emerged through listening sessions with Native special education staff around the state of Minnesota. MDE's Special Education Division and the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College are partnering and using State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG) funding to provide these webinars. While intended to serve the needs of and retain Native special education staff, the sessions are expansive enough to be a learning experience for all special education staff, administrators and institutes of higher education. We are hopeful the partnership and the webinars contribute to developing allyship.
The first webinar in the series will be held November 29, 2023:
Facilitator: Ann Mitchell, Principal Leadership Support Specialist, MDE
Time: 3:30-5 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Topic: Navigating Problems of Practice – People before Paper, Paper to serve People: Why Educators Deserve Balance
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be available for both teachers and administrators
Register for this free event on the Minnesota State website.
Future topics in this series will include:
- Panel of Native Special Education Staff for Administrators
- Mental Health from an Indigenous Perspective
- Positive Behavior Supports: What does this mean for Native children?
- Why culture matters to all children? Inclusion includes access to Indigenous Education.
- Community and Family perspective
- Difference, Disability and Disadvantage
- What does it mean to have access to resources and supplies for individualization? How to make this system work for what we do?
- Indigenous Human Development
For more information on these webinars or the Native special education network, please contact Govinda Budrow, govinda.budrow@fdltcc.edu.
For more information on the State Personnel Development Grant (SPDG), please contact Dr. Becky Gerdes.
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