Please join the Minnesota State Office of Equity & Inclusion as we begin the process of forming Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) across Minnesota State. The groups are voluntary and open to any Minnesota State employee who wishes to attend. Additional information is included below, along with the links to join the upcoming sessions. LGBTQIA+ ERG: July 13 from 3 – 4 […]
Applying an equity and anti-racist lens to our pedagogy and practicePedagogy and Practice Applying an equity and anti-racist lens to our pedagogy and practice is not a matter of convenience or when comfortable; it is a moral imperative that requires continual reflection and action. Read more… Culturally Responsive Pedagogy WebinarsNED Event Highlight Consider attending 2 corresponding webinars connecting Culturally Responsive […]
OverDrive, our library’s digital reading platform, announced a new program called Black Lives Matter: Community Reads (https://bit.ly/3drclad). These #ownvoices titles will be made available to libraries at no cost and will be available for you to access instantly with no waitlists or holds: “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” by Michelle Alexander “The Hate U […]
Dear Dragons, “I am George Floyd” As I write you today, my soul hurts. I know the personal pain that arises from systemic racism and institutional biases. As a parent my biggest worry is for the lives of our children and the pain that will be inflicted on them by no fault of their own. My heart is also heavy […]
Tuesday, June 16 | 3 p.m. | Zoom In the weeks following the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others at the hands of police, many are demanding that their communities #DefundThePolice or abolish policing. While the call for police abolition isn’t new, especially within black communities, many are hearing this demand for the first time. Join us […]