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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