Welcome to the MNEA Learns Library

An advocacy perspective requires educators to believe that with adequate support, multilingual learners (MLs) can achieve at the same level as their non-ML peers. Advocates also believe that educators have a shared sense of responsibility for the academic achievement of MLs. For educators to approach MLs’ instruction from an advocacy perspective, they must understand the needs and key areas for ML advocacy, as well as understand the tools and strategies that can support advocacy efforts.  Read more

Educators employ many resources and strategies to foster student engagement in a well-managed classroom. Developing culturally responsive, relevant, and high-interest instruction that accommodates differentiation will increase student interest and create an environment that promotes shared learning experiences, collaboration, discourse, and alternate avenues for learning that will fit the needs of all students. Read more

English language learners (ELLs) have unique needs when it comes to demonstrating their understanding and knowledge in an academic setting. Creating assessments that provide ELLs with opportunities to successfully demonstrate their learning is one of the key skills that teachers of ELLs need to master. Assessments are one of the most important  tools educators use to gather data that will drive best practices in their classroom instruction. To accurately assess ELLs,  their teachers must identify the most appropriate tools to evaluate the reliability of assessments and create appropriate accommodations for their students.  This learning series will support teachers through the intentional design, creation, and evaluation of assessment tools for classroom use so that results best reflect ELLs’ content knowledge, as well as their language ability. Read more

Multilingual learners (MLs) have unique needs when it comes to demonstrating their understanding and knowledge in an academic setting.  Creating assessments that provide MLs with opportunities to successfully demonstrate their learning is one of the key skills that teachers of MLs need to master. Assessments are one of the most important tools educators use to gather data that will drive best practices in their classroom instruction. To accurately assess MLs, teachers must identify the most appropriate tools to evaluate the reliability of assessments and create appropriate accommodations for their students.    This course will support teachers through the intentional design, creation, and evaluation of assessment tools for classroom use so that results best reflect multilingual students’ content knowledge, as well as their language ability. Read more

At the completion of this lesson, educators will identify and develop a plan to dismantle current institutional inequities, which are the result of historic racism and present-day structural racism and are found in schools and classrooms. This course is a part of the Diversity, Equity, and Cultural Competence (DECC) Series. Read more

Safe and just schools are essential for student success. When students experience fairness, justice, and emotional, physical, and mental safety in school, they are better positioned to fully engage in their learning environment and to achieve.  Read more