Professional Development

 This 2.5-hour Minnesota educator professional development course is a statewide collaboration between the Minnesota Service Cooperatives. Meet a variety of highly qualified reading specialists from across the state! Each instructor guides you through a reading preparation category listed in state statute, with a variety of classroom applications. Additionally, you will also explore the area of reading motivation and student engagement.

This 8-hour statewide learning course is a collaboration of the Minnesota Service Cooperatives. It is designed to broaden our understanding of and effective interaction with people of cultures, native languages, and socioeconomic backgrounds that may be different from our own. Course objectives are to promote self-reflection and discussion around the topics of race, culture and socioeconomics; American Indian and Alaska Native; systemic racism; religion; sexual orientation; gender identity, including transgender students; language diversity; individuals with disabilities, including mental health concerns, and others. We also strive to promote deeper understanding of our own frames of reference, learning to recognize our inherent potential biases, and to realize their impact on our expectations for and relationships with our students, families, and communities.