AGENDA:

Reimagine Minnesota leadership encouraged AMSD Superintendents to invite school board members and/or district leadership to the Reimagine Minnesota Strategy Review Session. We believed this session will benefit many leaders in our schools including superintendents, board members, and district leaders. We asked each Superintendent to limit their team to no more than 3 members. We closed the work session at 120 participants. The event was held in the Grand Hall at the TIES/Sourcewell event center Monday, Feb. 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

This strategy session focused on creating and sustaining consistent shared understanding of equity and high level of skill application for leaders at all levels. This workshop was facilitated by Gordon Goodwin from the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE).  Mr. Goodwin describes this workshop as an introduction to the role, responsibilities and opportunities for government to advance racial equity.

The focus was on normalizing racial equity as a core value with clear definitions of key terminology, operationalizing racial equity via new policies and institutional practice, and organizing, both internally and in partnership with other institutions and the community.

Participants gained awareness of the history of race and of implicit and explicit bias and individual, institutional, and structural racism and how it impacts the workplace; gained skill at identifying and addressing institutional and structural racism; and increased capacity to advance racial equity. This workshop included facilitated discussion, exercises and video.