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Annual MEA conference returns this October

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Annual MEA conference returns this October Now featuring even more relicensure classes! Education Minnesota’s annual MEA conference will be held Thursday, Oct. 17 at the St. Paul RiverCentre. This event, which is the union’s largest professional development conference, will feature dozens of workshops and exhibitors.

Details

  • The MEA conference is only open to aspiring educators and Education Minnesota members.
  • All attendees must register by Friday, Oct. 11. Classes fill up quickly, so we recommend registering as early as possible.
  • Attendee check-in begins at 7:30 a.m.
  • General session: 9:00 a.m.
  • Workshops: 10:45 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
  • Parking: the closest parking ramps are RiverCentre Ramp, 150 W. Kellogg Blvd; Science Museum of Minnesota, 120 W. Kellogg Blvd; Lawson Ramp, 11 5th St. West. More parking options are available at www.stpaul.gov/parking-saint-paul
  • For MEA attendees, free childcare is available for children ages 6 months-12 years. You can register when you register for the conference.
  • Attendees may be able to earn continuing education credit for attending MEA. Some workshops may help fulfill relicensure requirements. After MEA, Education Minnesota will email you an attendance certificate for the sessions you attended. Please check with your district on whether you will receive credit.

Don’t miss MEA’s keynote speaker Dr. Anton Treuer

Keynote speaker
Dr. Anton Treuer

This year’s MEA keynote will feature Dr. Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er), professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and prolific author and speaker. He earned a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is the editor of the Oshkaabewis (pronounced o-shkaah-baywis) Native Journal, the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language. Dr. Treuer is a member of the governing boards for the Minnesota State Historical Society and Waadookodaading Ojibwe Language Institute. He is actively building an Ojibwe teacher training program at Bemidji State University. In 2018, he was named Guardian of Culture and Lifeways and recipient of the Pathfinder Award from the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums. Dr. Treuer has sat on many organizational boards and received numerous prestigious awards and fellowships, including ones from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the First Nations Development Institute, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. His published works include:

  • Where Wolves Don’t Die.
  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians but Were Afraid to Ask.
  • The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds.
  • The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World.
  • Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe.
  • Ojibwe in Minnesota.
  • The Assassination of Hole in the Day.
  • Atlas of Indian Nations.
  • The Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed, and the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier.
  • Awesiinyensag.