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PARTNERS
The Language Attitude Institute fosters professional partnerships with educational ecosystems that share responsibility to sustain and revitalize home languages and cultures into and outside of the classroom.
We have so much gratitude and appreciation for all our partners who empower us to strengthen and continue our work.
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Partners
RESTART
creates a dynamic environment where art, culture, education and play come together to inspire, educate and entertain individuals of all ages and backgrounds without distinction
2016: Implements Vac’Art language & Art Camp
2020: Partners for Pousse Pions Festival
Arts to Change the World
employs the arts in service of positive social change
2018: Hosted a performance-based workshop to explore, acknowledge, and embody cultural identities
Cultural Wellness Center
incubates culturally-based solutions to real world problems.
2017: The Institute incubated with the Cultural Wellness Center
2022: The Institute is under the Eldership of the Cultural Wellness Center
University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs
aligns the University of Minnesota’s resources to accelerate community-driven change
2019: Produced Reclaiming languages, decolonizing knowledge(s): Articulating Indigenous knowledge(s) in and for language reclamation, an investigative report on driving youth-led revitalization
The Million Artist Movement
believes in the role of ART in the campaign to dismantle oppressive racist systems against Black, Brown, Indigenous and disenfranchised peoples
2019: Co-designed a mural for Center for Kente Circle
Minnesota Humanities Center
collaborates with individuals, organizations, and communities to bring transformational humanities programming into the lives of Minnesotans throughout the state.
2019-2021: Designed a toolkit that empower teachers to create a classroom environment sustaining students’ languages, literacies, and cultures
University of Minnesota’s Law Clinic
provides student attorneys with the opportunity to develop their legal skills and gain real-world client-service experience in a supportive setting
2021: Established Confidential Information and Invention Agreement and Media Consent and Release form
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council
improves arts access for communities in the seven-county metropolitan area through support to artists and organizations
2021 - 2022: Hosted a performance-based workshop for teachers on culturally revitalizing and sustainable pedagogy
2021 - 2022: Curated content for podcast development
Minneapolis Public Schools
embraces diversity in our students, in our staff and in the programs we offer to accelerate learning.
2021 - 2022: Coached teachers of Spanish, Arabic and Chinese on the integration of arts
2022 - 2023: Coached a teacher of Hmong 4 on how to implement youth participatory action research
Friends of the Mississippi
engages people to protect, restore and enhance the Mississippi River and its watershed in the Twin Cities region
2022 - 2023: Consulted on the development of a lesson series on the Cultural River Stewards project