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June 17, 2024
In The Staff Lounge Today
You are invited to join a celebration for MDE staff who will be transferring to the new Department of Children, Youth, and Families. Please join us at the second-floor kitchen area of the MDE office from 10-11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 18. It will be an open house type of event, so stop by anytime and join us for some snacks and drinks. MDE leadership will give brief remarks at 10:30 a.m.
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.
In observance of Juneteenth, MDE and state government offices are closed.
Celebrating Immigrant Heritage, Juneteenth and LGBTQ+ Pride
MDE continues to celebrate Immigrant Heritage, Juneteenth and LGBTQ+ Pride during June. Each of these celebrations and recognitions have a unique and rich history that continues to have an impact on us. To learn more, visit the EDI Center Heritage Month Celebrations page on Inside MDE.
The next Professional Development Day is just around the corner. Join us on Wednesday, July 24, at Hopkins High School, 2400 Royals Dr., Minnetonka for the second Professional Development Day of the year. All staff are required to attend. If staff cannot make it on this day, there will be a makeup day offered on Sept. 16 at MDE. More Information about the day and enrollment will be coming soon.
The third and final Professional Development Day of 2024 will be on Nov. 4 at Hopkins High School, with a makeup day offered on Wednesday, Nov. 20 at MDE.
Several staff have noticed the Staff Lounge sent Mon., June 3, went to their spam or junk mailbox. If you did not receive the last Staff Lounge, please check your junk and spam mailboxes. To check junk: open the Junk Email folder in your inbox. To check spam: visit your Quarantine and release any messages that you are sure are not spam. To help prevent this from happening again, add mnmde@service.govdelivery.com to your Safe Senders list by following the instructions at Safe Senders in Outlook. If you do not see Safe Senders settings, select Settings in the upper right corner, then select Junk email and add the email to the Safe Senders and Domains list. You can also find the latest Staff Lounge under Trending at MDE on Inside MDE.
Are you interested in learning how implementation science is being applied at MDE? Do you want to learn about using the Active Implementation Frameworks (AIFs)? Would you like to see real examples of school, district and regional partnerships implementing practices across years? There will be two virtual sessions, each two hours in length:
- Session 1: Monday, Aug. 26, 2024, 1-3 p.m. (Virtual session) Overview of the Five Active Implementation Frameworks
- Session 2: Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, 1-3 p.m. (Virtual session) What implementation looks like (interaction of frameworks applied over time).
Registration Link for Applied AIF Professional Development Series 2024
For more information, contact John Gimpl or Ellen Nacik.
On July 1, MDE and other state agencies will adopt an updated accessibility standard. Twelve new criteria are being added to the State of Minnesota Accessibility Standard. Learn more about the new standard at Get Ready for WCAG 2.1! and WCAG 2.1 Role-Based Information.
If you do any of the tasks below, please review the following role-based information:
Do you…
- Create content with graphics or fillable fields?
- Create PDFs?
- Create eLearning or online learning content?
- Work in procurement?
- Create charts, graphs and maps (data visualization)?
The Communications Division has been providing training to content managers on applicable portions of the new standards. For those in other roles, please reach out to the Office of Accessibility if you have questions about the new standards.
We heard from Jay Wyant, Chief Information Accessibility Officer, in our last All Staff Meeting about these new standards and the importance of accessibility in serving all Minnesota residents. Thank you in advance for your dedication to making our content accessible to everyone.
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