Sector-wide collaboration in education: TeachMN 2020
Our schools need teachers that reflect the diversity of Minnesota’s student population. More than 65 nonprofit organizations have responded to Minnesota Education Equity Partnership’s (MnEEP) call to action--to collaborate to achieve parity in teacher and student demographics.
This system-level change requires multifaceted coordinated responses. MnEEP is facilitating this change by:
Creating shared understanding of the trends impacting teacher diversity through more than 8 quarterly gatherings
Identifying teacher supports and assessing gaps
Mobilizing community resources to address gaps
The work of the coalition partners falls into one of four categories:
Explore: Supporting people to explore the teaching profession
Become: Helping people with the resources they need to become teachers.
Grow: Enriching teachers so they are retained and providing teachers tools to help them grow in their roles as teachers
Thrive: Enrich effective teachers cultural competency and role in advancing racial equity for students
Collectivity is honored to be an integrated partner in supporting MNEEP’s vision for the Twin Cities where all students of color see themselves reflected in the teachers that teach them. We work alongside the MnEEP TeachMN2020 team, leading, designing, collaborating, and problem solving.
Our work covers many aspects of assisting MNEEP with development of their partner meeting agendas and facilitation, developing critical technology tools like a website for their resources for teachers, and managing critical functions like their membership and communications.
Collectivity works with the coalition partners to develop their strategy maps, that include key objectives, measures and targets as well as specific action plans, that lead to the fulfillment of the objectives over defined periods of time. This exercise also helps each partner organization get a view of how they are contributing to the collective agenda. As a whole, the coalition is able to sense which supports to lean into, which are already covered, and what else needs to happen to achieve their shared objective. more than 15 workshops have been conducted.
