Client: State of Minnesota Departments of Education, Human Services, and Health
Project: This statewide engagement supported these agencies to meet rigorous federal and state consultation requirements on early childhood education standards and indicators of progress — that directly affect thousands of providers, families, school districts, universities, and other regulatory agencies throughout the state.
Worked directly with a multi-agency team to collaborate with stakeholders statewide to revise these standards and indicators of progress for children birth to kindergarten entrance.
- Facilitated broadly representative Workgroups for the two domains: language, literacy, and communications; and social and emotional
- Prepared comprehensive state demographic profile and presented to teams to provide critical perspectives on the current and future of the state
- Compiled and organized scholarly research
- Engaged statewide and national experts, with special emphasis on experts from communities of Color, immigrants, and Native Americans to ensure those critical perspectives are included
- Designed and implemented statewide feedback on draft revision, with special emphasis on underrepresented communities
- Compiled and analyzed feedback and presented to teams
- Facilitated Workgroups and all three agencies to reach consensus and prepare final recommendation to their respective state Commissioners
