Minnesota Heritage Fellowship

Minnesota Social Studies Standards: Revising With an Equity Lens

We’re pushing for revised standards to be inclusive of more lenses, narratives, and histories—and develop in all students a commitment to the American ideals of liberty and justice.

Pathways to Licensure for Heritage Language Teachers

Teachers of Hmong, Somali, Vietnamese, and other heritage languages currently have no licensure programs or other clear pathways to licensure in Minnesota. We’re working to change that.

Competency-Based Education

We believe in learning where students advance by demonstrating mastery of clearly articulated learning objectives, rather than by age, receiving extra support when they struggle and new challenges when they’ve ready to move on.

Ready for the Challenge: Ideas and Evidence from Student-Centered Learning in a Pandemic

A blog series diving deep on the learning practices and success measures schools are using to both respond to Covid-19—and pivot to a more student-centered future as we move beyond it.

National Teacher-Powered Schools Program

We support a network of teachers who are designing and running schools, to promote student-centered learning and advance the profession of teaching. This includes creating resources, hosting events, providing direct coaching to teams, and more.

Revamping Minnesota’s Teacher Standards

The state rules governing the knowledge and skills that teacher candidates learn were under review from 2019 to 2023. We advocated to revamp those rules, to better prepare teacher candidates to facilitate equitable, high-quality, student-centered learning experiences.

Retaining Teachers: Fostering Conditions Where Talent Thrives

We ran a year-long blog series looking at the causes of—and solutions to—the problem of teacher turnover. We explored research and stories on the school cultures, leaders, policies, and other factors that enable talent to thrive.

Innovation Zones

We worked to pass and then implement Minnesota’s “Innovation Zone” laws, throughout the 2010s.