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, BRAVE participants will receive support, mentorship and professional development in establishing work/life balance, building culturally-responsive classrooms and instructional strategies, and developing skills to use their voice to advocate for their students and schools. 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. 

Check back in August 2024 for information on 2024-25 registration.

Session dates 

  • Dec. 14, 2024 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. via Zoom (Session 1 Cohort Meet and Greet)
  • Jan. 11, 2025 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. via Zoom (Session 2 BRAVE with Students)
  • Feb. 22, 2025 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. via Zoom (Session 3 BRAVE with Colleagues)
  • March 22, 2025 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. via Zoom (Session 4 BRAVE with Community)
  • April 12, 2025 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in-person in St. Paul (Session 5 Public Education Stakeholder Panel) 

Course benefits:

  • Each participant will receive one copy of Elena Aguilar’s Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators and The Onward Workbook
  • 30 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) pending full course completion
  • Option to pay for graduate credit from Minnesota State University Mankato School of Education pending completion of additional course work
  • Professional development speakers on Trauma-Informed Instruction, Union Resources, First Amendment Educator Rights and Public Education Stakeholder Communication
  • Professional development speakers on Trauma-Informed Instruction, Cultural Competency, LGBTQ+ Advocacy and Support, Union Resources and Public Education Stakeholder Communication
  • Mileage and meals for final in-person session (and hotel accommodations, if needed, for those who live greater than 35 miles from St. Paul)
  • Five-session, cohort-based peer and professional support

Contact information

Program Coordinator
Melissa Del Rosario, Education Issues Specialist
Melissa.DelRosario@edmn.org
651-247-5548

Program Coordinator Office Assistant
Elizabeth Pettersen, Education Issues Support
Elizabeth.Pettersen@edmn.org
651-292-4893