Over the past summer, faculty, students, and alumni from the Department of Educational Psychology’s school psychology program,  partnered with school psychology practitioners in the field, as well as other faculty members in the Department of Educational Psychology, to publish a white paper. This white paper called upon educational and political leadership across the state to seek equity-centered statewide implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS). MTSS is a data-driven, problem-solving framework to improve outcomes for all students that relies on a continuum of evidence-based practices matched to student needs.*

Read the white paper: Pursuing Educational Equity in Minnesota through a State-Wide Multi-Tiered System of Support.

The authors are part of the Minnesota Collective for Educational Equity (MnCEE), a grassroots collective of school psychology graduate students and interns, faculty members, and practitioners as well as school administrators, and researchers. The group has a common goal of influencing educational policy and legislation in Minnesota in order to create equitable outcomes for all students.  

Now, MnCEE members have their sights set upon establishing meaningful relationships with other state-wide groups and organizations sharing a similar mission and reaching out to state policymakers to reach their goal of implementing equity-centered MTSS throughout the state of Minnesota.

School psychology faculty, students, and alumni who helped author the white paper and/or have participated in MnCEE include:

School psychology students

• Nicole McKevett
• Mollie Weeks
• Alexandria Muldrew
• Tara Kulkarni
• Jenna McGinnis

School psychology alumni

• Amanda Hensgen
• Annie Christenson
• Laurie Kincade
• Sydney Pauling
• Abbey Karich
• Amelia Ruedy

School psychology faculty and staff

• Jessie Kember
• Annie Hansen-Burke
• Amanda Sullivan
• Faith Miller
• Clay Cook

*Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions & Supports