Minnesota Humanities Center K-12

• Learning from Place: Bdote immersions: participants spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives.
• Increase Engagement through Absent Narratives workshops, wherein participants learn and practice strategies through personal storytelling and guided reflection to help them engage others with respect and empathy in their community or classroom.
• Professional development workshops for educators, including Inclusive Science, Story Circles, Writing Absent Narratives Lesson Plans, and more, giving educators practical tools to incorporate engagement strategies into their classrooms.
• Absent Narrative Resource Collection: More than 700 educators engaged with the Absent Narratives Resource Collection – an online searchable database of over 1,000 ready-to-use videos, teacher guides, and readings that help educators increase classroom engagement – through presentations and conference workshops.
• The Educator Institute: Minnesota educators are immersed in MHC’s approach to increase student engagement through absent narratives – those voices often left out or marginalized. During this week-long institute, as well as follow-up webinars and workshops, Minnesota educators learn how to develop meaningful connections with their students and implement practical classroom strategies to bring absent narratives pedagogy into practice.
• Collaboration with In Black Ink to support the development of children’s literature honoring the historic Rondo neighborhood in Saint Paul, MN.
• The Absent Narratives Implementation Fund, supporting supports individuals or teams of educators to implement humanities-based activities that will connect students to absent narratives in or outside of the classroom.

Activities and events implemented during the biennium include:

• Learning from Place: Bdote immersions: participants spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives.
• Increase Engagement through Absent Narratives workshops, wherein participants learn and practice strategies through personal storytelling and guided reflection to help them engage others with respect and empathy in their community or classroom.
• Professional development workshops for educators, including Inclusive Science, Story Circles, Writing Absent Narratives Lesson Plans, and more, giving educators practical tools to incorporate engagement strategies into their classrooms.
• Absent Narrative Resource Collection: More than 700 educators engaged with the Absent Narratives Resource Collection – an online searchable database of over 1,000 ready-to-use videos, teacher guides, and readings that help educators increase classroom engagement – through presentations and conference workshops.
• The Educator Institute: Minnesota educators are immersed in MHC’s approach to increase student engagement through absent narratives – those voices often left out or marginalized. During this week-long institute, as well as follow-up webinars and workshops, Minnesota educators learn how to develop meaningful connections with their students and implement practical classroom strategies to bring absent narratives pedagogy into practice.
• Collaboration with In Black Ink to support the development of children’s literature honoring the historic Rondo neighborhood in Saint Paul, MN.

Activities and events implemented during the biennium include:

• Learning from Place: Bdote immersions: participants spend the day visiting local sites of significance to Dakota people and learning about them from Dakota perspectives.
• Increase Engagement through Absent Narratives workshops, wherein participants learn and practice strategies through personal storytelling and guided reflection to help them engage others with respect and empathy in their community or classroom.
• Professional development workshops for educators, including Inclusive Science, Story Circles, Writing Absent Narratives Lesson Plans, and more, giving educators practical tools to incorporate engagement strategies into their classrooms.
• Absent Narrative Resource Collection: More than 700 educators engaged with the Absent Narratives Resource Collection – an online searchable database of over 1,000 ready-to-use videos, teacher guides, and readings that help educators increase classroom engagement – through presentations and conference workshops.
• The Educator Institute: Minnesota educators are immersed in MHC’s approach to increase student engagement through absent narratives – those voices often left out or marginalized. During this week-long institute, as well as follow-up webinars and workshops, Minnesota educators learn how to develop meaningful connections with their students and implement practical classroom strategies to bring absent narratives pedagogy into practice.
• Collaboration with In Black Ink to support the development of children’s literature honoring the historic Rondo neighborhood in Saint Paul, MN.