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May 17, 2024
Updates in this email:
The Student Support Data Collection (SSDC) data collection includes the following data elements:
- Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)
- Immigrant
- Active Duty Parent (ADP)
- Recently Arrived English Learners (RAEL)
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) will collect RAEL, ADP, SLIFE, and Immigrant data elements via the Student Support Data Collection (SSDC) Systems on June 1, 2024. Students appear in the SSDC system with a recent error-free MARSS submission. Only approved SSDC Coordinators are able to access the secure SSDC system to identify students.
All LEAs must submit data in the SSDC for school year 2023-24. For school year 2023-24 reporting, funding, and accountability purposes, RAEL, ADP, SLIFE, and Immigrant data elements will be pulled from the SSDC submission system.
Questions regarding SSDC, SLIFE identification or programmatic issues can be directed to mde.el@state.mn.us.
Ready for Summer Learning and Networking? Join educators from across the state for the second annual COMPASS Summer Institute! This free conference will be held in-person at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bloomington and will include sessions on elementary and secondary literacy and math, comprehensive mental health, educator well-being and much more!
Target Audience: District, Charter School, and Tribal school leaders, program directors and coordinators, school leaders and PreK–grade 12 educators.
To register for the summer institute and for additional information, please visit the COMPASS Summer Institute webpage.
If you have questions, please contact COMPASS.Institute.MDE@state.mn.us.
Register for the Culturally Responsive Arts Curriculum and Summer Institute. The Cohort will kick-off with a three-day summer institute taking place July 9-11, in the Twin Cities metro area. The institute lays the foundation for a yearlong professional development opportunity and will support arts educators in identifying inequities in their current arts curriculum and ways to make it more culturally responsive by using MDE’s Culturally Responsive Arts Education Curriculum Audit.
Registrants must be employed in a role that provides arts instruction (dance, music, theatre and visual arts) and/or one which provides arts curriculum oversight, development and/or support such as Program Facilitator or Curriculum Director. Additional information on eligibility and program details may be found on the Culturally Responsive Arts Ed webpage.
If you have any questions about this Cohort, please visit our Culturally Responsive Arts Ed webpage or reach out to Arts and Equity Specialist, Rae Fox-Charles, 651-582-8582.
Register for the Native Arts Summer Institute July 23-25. This free professional development institute and cohort supports K-12 arts educators to design meaningful and authentic learning experiences about Dakota and Ojibwe arts. Participants will take a deep dive into Dakota and Ojibwe arts and cultural expression as well as essential understandings about contemporary Native arts. Participants will learn alongside Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair, artists, makers and performers from Tribal Nations in Minnesota, and MDE arts specialists.
Participants will have an opportunity to put their summer learning into action by developing and piloting at least one unit of study aligned to the 2018 arts standards that authentically and appropriately integrates Dakota and/or Ojibwe arts during the 2024-25 school year. Continued support during the following school year for this curriculum development consists of three professional development days.
If you have questions about the Native Arts Institute and Cohort, registration, or eligibility, please reach out to Arts Specialist, Alina Campana or visit the Culturally Responsive Arts Ed webpage.
The Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Center, in collaboration with Minnesota restorative practices trainers, is offering Restorative Practices trainings this June in Greater Minnesota, Online, and in the Metro in Crystal.
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Strengthen Repair Skills:
- Reflect on Repair: Improve Your Practice – Online June 10-12, 1-4 p.m. $125.
- Repair-Pre-Meeting Support – Cloquet June 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $80.
- Personal Reflection: Harm, Discipline, and Change – Cloquet, June 10-11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $165.
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Explore the RP “Why”:
- Voices of Experience: Breaking the School to Prison Pipeline – Cloquet June 5, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $80.
- Trauma Awareness – Cloquet, June 10, $80.
- Trauma Informed RP – Online June 10-12, 1-4 p.m. $125.
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Center Yourself:
- Restorative Mindfulness – Online June 10, 11, 12, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. $125 and Bemidji, June 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $80.
- Somatic Circle -Embodying the Essence of Circle – Cloquet, June 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $80.
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Invite all Voices: Student Ambassadors – Cloquet, June 11, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $80.
- Teaching Circle with Students with Special Needs – Crystal June 26-27, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $165.
- Circle to Play – Bemidji, June 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $80.
Remember, the Paraprofessional Affinity Circle – Online, June 10-13, 9 a.m.-12 p.m. or Crystal, June 24-25, is free for educational aides, non-licensed educators and paraprofessionals.
For further information, go to Implementing Restorative Practices webpage, or contact Nancy Riestenberg, 651-582-8433 or Grace Yang, 651-582-8777.
The seventh webinar in the MDE and Fond Du Lac Tribal and Community College series “Strengthening Community by Lifting the Voices of Indigenous Special Education Staff” will be on the topic of Why Culture Matters to All Children: Inclusion Includes Access to Indigenous Education. The event will be held Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 3:30-5 p.m., on Zoom. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available.
Register for the May 22, 2024, SPDG webinar on the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities website. The Zoom link to the session is sent with your registration confirmation. If you do not receive a confirmation, please verify your email address is current.
For more information, please contact Dr. Becky Gerdes.
June 19, 2024, will be the second time Minnesota celebrates Juneteenth as a State holiday. Juneteenth recognizes the historical pronouncement of the abolition of slavery on June 19, 1865, when the Emancipation Proclamation was said to have been first publicly read in Texas by Union soldiers.
As is the case with other holidays defined in Minnesota Session Laws 2023 Chapter 5, no public business can be conducted on this day. This means schools cannot hold classes or programs, school board meetings, athletic practices and competitions, and other school-associated events.
Is your school community working strategically to increase family and community engagement and consistent student attendance? Ensuring families have what they need is one of the primary goals of the new Department of Human Services (DHS) request for proposals (RFP) to create a Network of Community Resource Centers and Kinship Navigator Programs. Expanding places in community where families feel safe and supported to access programs and services is a key strategy in promoting family and community well-being. This RFP is now open for application.
Community Resource Center and Kinship Navigator grants are available to a broad array of entities including but not limited to community-based organizations, local governments, Tribal Nations, counties, school districts, community action agencies and collaboratives including one or more mentioned entity.
We encourage all eligible applicants to apply by May 31, 2024.
The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is excited to launch the Statewide Testing Redesign Survey. Your voice and the perspectives of your community are important to this effort as new academic standards are adopted in science, reading, and math, along with new assessments. The survey asks about how you receive, interpret and use statewide assessment results. Your feedback will help MDE ensure the results from the new assessments students take beginning in spring 2025 are as clear and useful as possible.
The Statewide Testing Redesign Survey is now open for responses until May 19. It should take no longer than 15 minutes. Responses will be completely anonymous.
Additionally, MDE is hoping individuals in these groups will share their perspective:
- Students in grades 8–12
- Families of students in grades K–12
- Classroom educators
- School-level leadership staff
- District-level leadership staff
- Assessment coordinators
- Community group members and leaders
- State agency staff
Please share the link with your staff and families! We thank you in advance and appreciate your support in gathering feedback from these groups.
Your expertise is critical to this process and we know your time is valuable. Thank you sincerely for your time and consideration. If you have any questions, please contact mde.testing@state.mn.us.
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