Mission: To foster collaboration, provide resources and celebrate achievement.
Vision: Helping Minnesotans be their best.
NEWS & OPPORTUNITIES
It is now time to nominate your students as Academic-All Stars! All Minnesota K-12 teachers, principals and academic challenge coordinators are invited to designate students as Academic All-Stars, to be eligible to attend the 2020 Gathering of Champions.”
UPDATE:
The WEM Outstanding Educator Awards Brunch and the Character Recognition Awards Luncheon scheduled for May have been cancelled due to recommendations for the COVID-19 pandemic. We look forward to celebrating the honorees. For more details, please visit the webpage for each event.
2020 Minnesota Ethical Leadership Award Honorees!
Congratulations to BEING THE CHANGE (youthrive, Inc.), Girls on the Run Twin Cities, and IDEAL Center (Science Museum of Minnesota) for being selected as the 2020 MELA honorees! Learn more.
Congratulations 2020 Minnesota Promising Practices Award Honorees!
Learn more about these award winning, character-building practices from Bright Water Montessori School, Cologne Academy, DECS Raleigh Academy, I.J. Holton Intermediate School, and Winsted and Humphrey Elementary Schools.
2020 Minnesota Schools of Character Announced
Congratulations to Cologne Academy for being certified and Waseca Jr. & Sr. High School for being recertified as a Minnesota School of Character!
Learn more.
2020 National Service-Learning Conference® Goes Virtual (and FREE)
Join us April 16 and 17 for 12 hours of educational sessions, virtual exhibitors, a service project you can do from home, and connecting opportunities via the Service-learning Network.Learn more.
Download the 2019-2020 Reach for the Stars catalogue
Minnesota Schools of Character Video
Wondering what a school with high expectations for learning and character development looks like? Check out the new Minnesota Schools of Character video featuring two-time Minnesota and National School of Character honoree, Community of Peace Academy from Saint Paul, Minnesota. A special thanks to the C. Charles Jackson Foundation for the grant which funded the work.