Minnesota’s 91st regular legislative session drew to a close on May 18 with COVID-19 response becoming the primary focus. Now with a special session convened June 12, lawmakers have a chance to address timely calls for police reform and hear education issues left on the table last month.
Last Thursday, legislators came together to pass a bill designed to address the growing Covid-19 pandemic. The governor signed the bill on Saturday. We look at what this means education policy and the remainder of the legislative session.
Competency-based education forms the foundation of schools like Northwest Passage High School and High School for Recording Arts. We spoke to both schools to learn how their models support students for whom traditional approaches have failed.
Minnesota reconvened its 91st legislative session on Tuesday, February 11. We lay out our policy priorities for the year—including competency-based education and reimagining teacher preparation—and highlight key education issues worth watching in 2020.
Strategies that state policymakers use to help retain teachers fall into three main buckets: improving initial teacher preparation; supporting teachers’ on-boarding and development; and expanding opportunities for teacher professionalism and leadership. We summarize them here.
With a teacher shortage affecting schools across the nation, the University of St. Thomas School of Education and Education Evolving teamed up to examine what can be done to increase teacher retention and what conditions enable teachers to thrive in their schools.
At Park Center Senior High, Pang Yang is teaching a heritage language course for native Hmong speakers. But the course is more than about language, culture, and history—it’s about the exploration of identity.
