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Education Minnesota invites all members to a one-day symposium on trauma informed, restorative practices for educators. The event will take place on Saturday, May 13 at Education Minnesota headquarters in St. Paul. The symposium was designed by both classroom teachers and TA’s to address school safety concerns and provide new alternatives and intervention strategies to curb the over-reliance on exclusionary punishments. This symposium will start the important conversation on how we can work together to improve school safety, close achievement gaps, end structural racism, and build stronger schools.

Further details and registration information can be found on the attached document . Breakfast, lunch and CEU’s are provided.

EM-R’s leaders are working hard to develop a better educational system in Minnesota. Maria is a leader in the Facing Inequities and Racism in Education (FIRE) recent retreat taking place this last April 7-8 in Saint Paul.

The goal of the two-day retreat was to pilot some community storytelling exercises that helped participants develop a deeper understanding of racial equity work in the context of their own lives. Participants also worked on creating an application for members to indicate their interest in and availability to be trained as a Racial Equity Advocate (REA) in the coming months. We hope to offer the initial set of training sessions for REAs at the 2017 Summer Seminar.

Education Minnesota-Roseville is a union of over 600 teachers in Roseville, MN.  We are represented by a leadership team that includes:

President Dan Beck

Vice-President Emily Bergquist

Treasurer Sandy Cassavant

Secretary Isaac Engel

Membership Chair: Joe Weyer

Member Rights Council:

• Dan Beck(Elementary),
• Gregg Martinson(RAHS and FAHS),
• Emily Bergquist(Student Services)
• Ben Schwanke(RAMS)

Negotiations: Dan Beck, Gregg Martinson, Emily Bergquist and Ben Schwanke