Welcome to the MNEA Learns Library

Understanding oneself and others is key to building a socially just coaching relationship, especially in a digital environment. This course will provide an overview of foundational competencies necessary to lead others as inclusive instructors, identify digital tools that can enhance your coaching relationships, and identify ways to help others shift their thinking.    Throughout the course, you will curate content, create or revise digital coaching platforms, and identify your own bias to be better prepared to work with others of all cultural backgrounds.  Read more

In this course, educators identify key elements of a trauma-informed pedagogy and design a healing-centered learning environment for students.  Read more

This module focuses on building an educator’s understanding of how trauma can impact student responses and behaviors. The module also promotes the educator’s ability to create and maintain a student’s positive engagement in all aspects of learning and interactions, actively minimizing the frequency, intensity, and duration of outbursts. Read more

Helping all children learn is our goal as educators. In this course, you will learn specific techniques and approaches to support learners who may be experiencing refugee trauma. Read more

This course will approach culturally relevant pedagogy as a way of teaching that draws on the cultural knowledge, backgrounds, and experiences of students to make the learning more meaningful and appropriate to support student achievement. Read more

To effectively support the diverse needs of students from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, it is imperative to understand the concept of "culture" and how it impacts the process of teaching and learning. This course presents culturally relevant pedagogy as a teaching method to leverage learners’ cultural knowledge, backgrounds, and experiences. By doing so, the learning process becomes more meaningful and suitable, thereby enhancing student achievement. Read more