Project Information
Project Phase (Pre-concept, Concept, Plan, Develop, Available, Archive)
Develop
Phase
Impacts
PlanScape Impacts
Level 1:
Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
Level 2:
African American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Latino, C2C: 8th Grade Math, C2C: Post-Secondary, C2C: Workforce Participation
DMC Impacts :
Community Health Impacts :
Collaborators
Contact:
Afolabi Runsewe
; Email:
afrunsewe@rochester.k12.mn.us
; Phone:
507-328-4300
Lead Organization:
Rochester Public Schools
Known/Likely Collaborators:
RPS Racial Equity Advisory Team (Community Focus Team)
;
Rochester Public Schools
;
Rochester for Justice
Potential Collaborators :
Diversity Council
;
Mediation & Conflict Solutions
;
NAACP, Rochester Chapter
Related Projects
Collaborative Leadership Fellow Program
;
Cradle to Career
;
Diversity Council Civic Equity Focus Area
;
Diversity Council Education Equity Plan
;
Diversity Council Health Equity Plan
;
OpenBeam Activating Technologies Project
;
Rochester Public Schools Strategic Plan
;
Youth Mediation in Rochester Public Schools
Key reports on: Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)
Diversity and Inclusion Related Events => LINK
Key reports on: Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)
Misc reports on: Closing referral disparities (resolution agreement with Office of Civil Rights)
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"The district is at various points of implementing PBIS at each school, but having more consistency will better allow the district to evaluate efforts, including its latest employee training in ENVoY, a nonverbal communication technique to influence students in the classroom."
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At 2017-04-19 RPS School Board Meeting the following decision was made to enhance the effectiveness of School Board's Community Engagement Committee and RPS's Community Focus Team: deploy a design team (steering committee) to co-facilitate going forward.
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VIDEO
In August 2016, the Community Focus Team brought forward a set of recommendations. Questions from the community: What has happened since then and how do we get engaged?
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4 main areas to make progress toward education equity.
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Great RPS: Equity in Family Engagement Meeting. Following are some notes.
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Great Lakes Equity Center has identified 6 barriers for equity progress.
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This pilot for Early Education being proposed by Minnesota Council on Latino Affairs (MCLA) | www.mcla.state.mn.us
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After attending the January 7 2016 RPS community meeting, I took the time to review the slide deck handed out by RPS at the meeting and found myself asking a number of questions.
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The Rochester Public School District is taking the first steps to address a disproportionate disciplinary rate for black and Hispanic students. A community engagement session to get input and solicit involvement from community members will be held at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 7 at Riverside Elementary School. I believe that conversation is necessary but not sufficient. We need to follow up with actions. Here is a 5+1 action plan.
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Key Beam Reports on:
Children & Youth, Diversity and Inclusion, Education
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OpenBeam.net is grateful to to have a chance to talk to some of the 2021 MHC Cultural
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Coalition of Community Health Improvement (CHIP) releasing 2021-2023 health improvement plan.
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2020-12-11 Report; 2020-11-02 October Report; 2020-09-30 September Report
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MN Children's Cabinet Info and Info shared by April Sutor, Family Service Rochester: MDH Shared Resources: Check out MDH websites for resources on mental well-being during COVID . Sites may be updated frequently.
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(1) City Council approved ICI Resolution (2) City Council Study Session on ICI Index
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In the last month we have seen an influx of challenges and barriers affecting our API communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the challenges we are hearing from our communities is the closure of schools and the implementation of distance learning.
As of this current school year, Asian American students make up 6.9% of students enrolled in Minnesota . In the last month, we have heard that language access, technology challenges, and financial burdens have presented barriers not only for students to be successful in the classroom, but also for parents who wish to be involved in their children’s education. This has led our communities to face unique barriers to full and equal participation in learning and instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In response to this issue, the Council has created a community survey to identify ongoing barriers experienced by API families during distance learning. The purpose of this survey is to collect data collect to inform the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) on areas for improvement and best practices with API students during the distance learning period.
With this in mind, we ask for your participation in helping us to widely distribute this survey to community members to ensure that their voices are heard by MDE officials. The survey will be open for community response between Monday, April 27th – Friday, May 8th.
Our simple ask to you is your help in sending out the survey to community members using email and social media. If you can make this small commitment, please confirm by responding to this email. Once we receive your confirmation we will follow-up with language templates and guidance to send out the surveys. Thank you all and we all wish your loved ones well.
Please if you have any questions you can contact me, or our Research Assistant Daniel Yang, at daniel.y.yang@state.mn.us .
Sincerely,
Anjuli Mishra Cameron, M.S. | Research Director
Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans | 658 Cedar Street, Suite 160 | St. Paul, Minnesota 55155
(651) 757-1742 | (507) 649-1157 | anjuli.cameron@state.mn.us |mn.gov/capm
Looking for additional resources during the COVID-19 outbreak?
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TPT videos to help dispel myths about the census and to help the community see why filling out the census is critical we have created videos in Somali, Hmong, Spanish, and English.
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Community Beam (dmcbeam.org) is a registry of private and public resources (organizations, projects, initiatives, programs) that underpin economic and social developments of greater Rochester: