Building Resiliency and Voice with Early Career Educators
Are you within the first five years of your education career?
Are you interested in strengthening your own resilience and professional voice alongside other early career educator members in Minnesota?
As a benefit of your membership, early career educators are encouraged to apply for this free professional development opportunity.
Using our central course text, Elena Aguilar’s Onward, participants receive support, mentorship, and professional development within a cohort structure. Through strengthening communication and instructional practices, integrating mind-body regulation techniques and exploring ways to use their voices as a tool for advocacy and change, participants focus on discovering their own resilience within. And, most importantly, this five-session, cohort-based course provides our early career educators with both time and a safe space to connect with their newer colleagues from across the state who are facing similar systemic concerns in their own locals.Â
Session dates
It is strongly encouraged that participants attend all five sessions to fully benefit from our cohort connections and course content.
- Dec. 12, 2026, from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. via Zoom (Session 1: Cohort Meet and Greet)
- Jan. 23, 2027, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. via Zoom (Session 2: BRAVE with Students)
- Feb. 21, 2027, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. via Zoom (Session 3: BRAVE with Colleagues)
- March 20, 2027, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. via Zoom (Session 4: BRAVE with Community)
- April 18, 2027, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in-person in St. Paul (Session 5: Mind-Body Regulation Workshop)Â
Course benefits:
- Cohort-based peer and professional support.
- Mileage and meals for final in-person session (and hotel accommodations, if needed, for those who live greater than 35 miles from St. Paul).
- One copy of Elena Aguilar’s Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators and The Onward Workbook.
- Professional development speakers on Trauma-Informed Instruction, Union Resources, First Amendment Educator Rights and Mind-Body Regulation Techniques.
- Up to 25 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) pending full course completion.
- Option to earn 1 or 3 discounted graduate credits from Minnesota State University Mankato School of Education pending payment and additional course work.
Contact information
Program Coordinator
Melissa Del Rosario, Education Issues Specialist
Melissa.DelRosario@edmn.org
651-247-5548
Program Office Assistant
Elizabeth Pettersen, Education Issues Support
Elizabeth.Pettersen@edmn.org
651-292-4893
