Minnesota Humanities Center cultural competency programs

Cultural competency programs
The Minnesota Humanities Center's cultural competency porgrams will help educators increase their understanding and appreciation of cultural differences and similarities within, among, and between groups represented in their classrooms.

Living in transition, in poverty, and with stereotypes has an impact on the cultural and educational lives of many children in urban classrooms. In late 2007, the Minnesota Humanities Center conducted two seminars, each offered twice, for K-8 educators who teach American Indian and Somali and East African immigrant and refugee students. These seminars were supported in part with generous grants from NorthStar Education Finance, Inc. and the General Mills Celebrating Communities of Color grant program.

These seminars were offered at no cost to K-8 teachers from high-poverty schools in the seven-county metro area, through the NorthStar support. Links to resources from the programs are noted below.

Waziyatawin Angela Cavendar Wilson on decolonization (Part 1, 25:40)
Waziyatawin Angela Cavendar Wilson on decolonization (Part 2, 21:43)

SOURCE: Audio clips from Healing the Earth, a weekly radio show based out of Guelph, Ontario, through the community radio station, CFRU.

Cultural competency resources
To earn graduate credit for participation in the Humanities Center's cultural competency programs, participants will develop activities related to the programs. Read more about these resources.

Resource lists from the American Indian seminar are posted here.
Resource lists from the East African seminar are posted here.

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