New Professional Development Workshop Offered for Minnesota Education Professionals
Helping immigrant and refugee students succeed
This workshop addresses common barriers faced by many of Minnesota’s immigrant and refugee students, as well as accompanying opportunities for improvements at the classroom, school, district, and state level (tailored to request). Intended audiences include administrators, pre-service and in-service teachers, counselors and social workers, and other professionals working with youth.
The material presented is based on the findings of Moving from Exclusion to Belonging, Immigrant Rights in Minnesota Today, a two-year statewide monitoring project conducted by The Advocates for Human Rights in which hundreds of community members, service providers, and other experts provided input on a number of issue areas, including education.
Workshops are offered free of charge to public schools in Minnesota. (If outside the metro area, reimbursement for mileage only may be required.)
To request a speaker, please fill out a request form at DiscoverHumanRights.org/SpeakerForm.html.
Looking for information about Central American children and families?
Read The Advocates’ “Central American Refugee Children & Families: What Education Professionals Need to Know.”
Get basic information on The Advocates’ website: Fact Sheet Regarding Humanitarian Crisis at U.S.-Mexico Border.
Read additional background, context, and stories at The Advocates’ blog.
"Living the Legacy" Youth Video Competition
Show what the "Dream" means to you
As part of Human Rights Week, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR) is sponsoring a video contest to hear from youth across the state about their take on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 – the nation’s benchmark civil rights legislation – and how they are “Living the Legacy” today. Finalists will be honored the first week of December during Human Rights Week in Minnesota, and MDHR will showcase the videos on YouTube. MDHR Commissioner Kevin Lindsey will recognize the finalists at their schools and discuss diversity and Dr. King’s Dream with the students' classes.
Background: On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The legislation not only ended the application of “Jim Crow” laws – upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case – it paved the way for future anti-discrimination legislation, including the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Challenge: Videos should creatively show how you view race, diversity and the ideals of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in your life today, as well as in your school and community.
Eligibility: Youth in grades 4-12; adults ages 18-25
Video Details: Length - 30 seconds to 2 minutes; upload to your video to YouTube
Deadline: November 14, 2014
More information is available at mn.gov/mdhr, and on MDHR's Facebook and Twitter.
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