Defending the Freedom to Learn

Our partners at Education Minnesota created two resources to support their network of public school champions. These guides provide communications tips on ways to resist the groups that want to deny Minnesota's students of the knowledge and skills they will need to live and lead in the multi-racial, multicultural state.  

The Defending Our Students’ Freedom to Learn guide includes recommendations that are intended to inform local resistance to legislation that would restrict what students learn about race and gender through books in their school libraries and classroom curriculum. It also fights back at attacks on teachers and professional development opportunities that includes lessons in diversity, equity and inclusion.

The Social-Emotional Learning and School-Based Mental Health: Communication Tips for Minnesotans document is designed to assist with pushing back on conspiracy theories aimed at social-emotional learning and school-based mental health services. This document is a short guide for talking to the public about the benefits of providing this programming for students.