EDTalksMN

Our February 2016 EDTalks featured Bertrand Weber, the Director of Nutrition and Culinary Services for Minneapolis Public Schools who discussed the importance of high-quality school lunches and his innovative work leading the Farm-to-School movement. Dr. Megan Gunnar is the Associate Director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Development, and the Director of the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Gunnar discussed the importance of early brain development and how we need to start engaging children in learning before kindergarten.

Our April 2015 EDTalks featured Kao Kalia Yang, a teacher, public speaker, writer and author of the award-winning book "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. She spoke about her experiences as a Hmong student in public schools. Dana Mortenson, co-founder of World Savvy believes deeply in the transformative power of global education. Dana discussed the importance of globally competent teaching. Our emcee for the evening was Tane Danger.

We kicked off our 2016-17 season of EDTalks with a discussion on demographic data - how the demographics of Minnesota and the metro area have changed over time, and what these changes mean for our communities and our classrooms.

Ruth Hamberg, Engagement Specialist from MinnesotaCompass presented "Who Is Minnesota" and gave us a foundation of our community's demographics. KaYing Yang, Policy Director for the Coalition for Asian American Leaders, discussed "Who Are We Talking About? The Importance of Disaggregating Data" and how digging deeper in to data sets can help communities advocate for equity. Javier Morillo was our emcee for the evening.