Mar 11, 2020

Chapter Twenty-Two >>>>> Department of Indian Education


The Department of Indian Education, which exists under a Minnesota legislative mandate, brings special cultural programming in Minneapolis Public Schools sites that have the highest enrollment of American Indian students;  the department also reaches out in family engagement efforts.

 
Academic proficiency rates for American Indian students enrolled in the Minneapolis Public Schools for academic years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 are given as follows:
 
MPS Proficiency Rates for Academic Years ending in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019
(Results of Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments [MCAs], administered each spring of those years)
 
Math                       2014        2015       2016       2017       2018       2019
 
American                23%        19%      19%       16%       17%      18%
Indian
 
Reading
 
American                21%        20%      21%        22%       23%      25% 
Indian
 
Science                                   
 
American                14%        16%      13%       16%       13%      17%
Indian
 
There has been quite a bit of turnover in the Department of Indian Education since last academic year 2018-2019.
 
Please peruse the following lists, indicative of new staff since March 2018 and the full lists of march 2018 and September 2019.
 
Department of Indian Education Staff in September 2019, New Since March 2018
 
>>>>>    Jennifer Simon, Director
                (Cheyenne River Lake)
>>>>>    Diane Leskey, Office Senior Specialist
>>>>>    TBD, Counselor on Special Assignment
>>>>>    TBD, TOSA, Special Education
>>>>>    Anjanette Parisien, District Program Facilitator
                (Turtle Mountain)
>>>>>    Shane Thompson, School Success Program Assistant
                (Seneca)
 
Also note these unfilled positions >>>>>
 
>>>>>    TBD, Counselor on Special Assignment
>>>>>    TBD, TOSA, Special Education
>>>>>    TBD, District Program Facilitator
               
Department of Indian Education Staff in March 2018,
No Longer in the Department as of September 2019
 
>>>>>    Anna Ross, Director
>>>>>    Terry Bignett, School Success Program Assistant
>>>>>    Tami Johnson, Counselor on Special Assignment
>>>>>    Ida Downwind, District Program Facilitator
>>>>>    James Vukelich, School Success Program Assistant
>>>>>    Odia Wood-Krueger, District Program Facilitator
 
Department of Indian Education Staff, September 2019
 
1.    Jennifer Simon, Director
       (Cheyenne River Lake)
2.    Diane Leskey, Office Senior Specialist
3.    Jodi Burke, Counselor on Special Assignment
4.    TBD, Counselor on Special Assignment
5.    Tracy Burke, Counselor on Special Assignment
6.    Alicia Garcia, Social Worker
       (Taos Pueblo)
7.    Braden Canfield, Social Worker
8.    TBD, TOSA, Special Education
9.    Anjanetter Parisien, District Program Facilitator
10.  Gary Lussier, District Program Facilitator
        (Red Lake)
11.  TBD, District Program Facilitator
12.  Shane Thompson (School Success Program Assistant)
        (Seneca)
13.  Christine Wilson, Family Engagement Specialist
        (White Earth)
14.  Miskwa Mukwa Desjarlait, Youth Engagement Specialist
        (Red Lake)
 
Please compare this list to that of March 2018:
 
Department of Indian Education Staff, March 2018,
 
1.    Anna Ross, Director
2.    Terrell Bignell, School Success Program Assistant
3.    Jodi Burke, Counselor on Special Assignment
4.    Tracy Burke, Counselor on Special Assignment
5.    Braden Canfield, Social Worker
6.    Miskwa Mukwa Desjarlait, Youth Engagement Specialist
7.    Ida Downwind, District Program Facilitator
8.    Alicia Garcia, Social Worker
9.    Tami Johnson, Counselor on Special Assignment
10.  Elaine Kopischke, Office Specialist
11.  Gary Lussier, District Program Facilitator
12.  James Vukelich, School Success Program Assistant
13.  Christine Wilson, Family Engagement Specialist
14.  Odia Wood-Krueger, District Program Facilitator
 
 
 

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