Links to Minnesota Literacy Organizations
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Organization
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Goals/Mission
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Website
or email contact
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| Children's Literature Network | Provide connection, encouragement, education, camaraderie, and programming for adults who are passionate about encouraging kids to read | |
| Critical Literacy Project | To foster discussion of alternative socio-cultural conceptions of literacy learning and sharing of teaching methods related to critical literacy and pedagogy approaches |
email: rbeach@umn.edu |
| Metro Educational Cooperative Service Unit | Provide services and resources to educators, administrators, schools, districts, and students in the seven-county metro area | |
| Head Start | Serve the child development needs of preschool children and their low-income families | |
| Minnesota Academy of Reading | Use expertise of members to influence state policies and standards regarding literacy: Encourage more involvement and increase membership in MRA; Create a forum for teacher educators and policy makers to use expertise to discuss teacher education curriculum | |
| Minnesota Council of Teachers of English | To support the teaching of literacy and humanities and to provide opportunities for educators to connect with and learn from one another | |
| MDE - Early Childhood Family Education | To strengthen families and enhance the ability of all parents to provide the best possible environment for healthy growth and development of their children. It includes parent education, parent-child interactions, and early childhood education. | |
| MDE - School Readiness | To prepare children to enter kindergarten; To foster children's development and skills; To provide family support for children's development and learning; Participation in child development programs | |
| Minnesota Educational Media Organization | To provide leadership and professional growth for quality school library media and technology programs which meet the learning and instructional needs of our students, staff, administrators and community | |
| Minnesota Humanities Commission | To inspire people to learn, to grow, and to give to their communities by providing leadership, resources, and programs that advance the study of the humanities - the foundation of democracy, government, and civil life - and that enhance the work of schools, colleges, and cultural organizations throughout our state. | |
| Minnesota Library Organization | An association of library supporters, representing all types of libraries by helping them accomplish together what none can do alone. Serves the interests of its members by facilitating educational opportunities, supporting strong ethical standards, providing legislative assistance and fostering connections between the library community and various constituencies. | |
| Minnesota Reading Association | To promote life-long literacy; To encourage interaction among all organizations involved with literacy. | |
| Minnesota Reads | A higher education partnership to foster quality K-12 preservice teacher education programs. The three-year faculty development project is funded by the Bush Foundation and includes faculty from the U of M, Augsburg, St. Catherine's, and St. Cloud State |
email Peggy DeLapp:
dela0183@umn.edu
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| Minnesota Staff Development Council | To champion the success of all learners by promoting consistent application of effective, research-based staff development and by facilitating collaboration through integrity in all relationships | |
| Minnesota Teachers of English as a Second or Other Language | Concerned with the teaching of English as a foreign or second language, Standard English as a second dialect, and English in bilingual education. | |
| Minnesota Writing Project | To improve the writing of Minnesota's students; To strengthen university and school collaboration on writing instruction; To increase the professional power of classroom instructors; To provide opportunities for educators to learn from one another and then to share that learning with their colleagues, schools, and districts. | |
| MDE - Quality Teaching Networks - Reading; Writing | To support educator quality in Minnesota; To increase student achievement in reading and writing; To team with reading and writing educators in the state to design on-going, effective professional development experience in reading and writing; To support the educational initiatives in Minnesota; To provide guidance to school districts in aligning standards to curriculum |
http://education.state.mn.us Reading - email: Bonnie.Schwartz@state.mn.us Writing - email: Charon.Tierney@state.mn.us |
| Reading First Schools/School Change Reading Program | To provide a research-validated school reform in reading model to Reading First Schools, to state Reading Academy schools, and to school participating in the National School Change in Reading Program | |
| Reading Recovery Council of North America | To dramatically reduce the number of first grade students who have great difficulty learning to read and write; To reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems over time | |
| Secondary Reading Interest Council | To promote literacy instruction for all students at the middle and high school levels;To cooperate with content area state organizations to foster inclusion of literacy learning in grades 5-12 content area instruction; To lobby for specific literacy legislation; To cooperate with the MRA in planning and developing professional development opportunities. | |
| Minnesota Elementary Principals' Association | To promote and improve education for children and youth, strengthening the role as educational leader for elementary and middle school principals, and collaborating with partners in education to assist in achieving these goals. |
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