The NED was established to provide educational development opportunities that are designed by Minnesota State faculty and staff for Minnesota State faculty and staff. These opportunities help build awareness, develop knowledge, skills, and abilities, and provide space for reflecting and revising.
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Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Learning Community: Fall 2022
OnlineSeptember 12 - December 4, 2022 Faculty Learning Community Description Our chancellor has given us the challenge of eliminating our equity gaps by 2030. How can we, as instructors, shift our teaching practices to meet this goal? One promising path is to ground those practices in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. In this course, we’ll have the... Continue Reading →
Equity 101: Fall 2022
OnlineSeptember 12 - October 23, 2022 Short Course Description This six week short course is sequentially designed to encourage reflection about the structural conditions that inform who we are and how we relate to others. Module 1 explores our individual position within the historical and systemic structures of privilege and oppression, and how those affect... Continue Reading →
What’s New in D2L Brightspace: September 2022 (20.22.09)
OnlineThis webinar will focus on new features and changes in the September 2022 release (version 20.22.09) that will be available in D2L Brightspace starting Thursday, September 15. RSVP Required Use... Continue Reading →
Cultural Competence for Professional Fluency
OnlineLake Superior College has an ongoing initiative called Professional Fluency focusing on different aspects of professionalism that faculty can bring into their classes and actively teach. The first four aspects of professionalism we focused on were Timeliness, Respect, Taking Personal Responsibility, and Oral and Written Communication. We created a rubric defining how students can demonstrate... Continue Reading →