Mission, Vision, Commitments
Mission: Why does MNP20 exist?
We collaborate across sectors to increase equitable education access and supports, enhance lifelong learning opportunities, and improve outcomes for every Minnesotan.
Vision: What must MNP20 become in order to achieve its mission?
We will influence change, foster innovation, and advocate for policies and practices that address priority issues in education and workforce development.
Commitments: How will MNP20 accomplish its mission and vision?
We aim to fulfill our mission and vision through the following commitments in our work:
Collaboration
- Facilitating cross-organizational, cross-agency, and cross-sector convening, planning, and strategy development
- Supporting the incubation, acceleration, and amplification of promising practices across the state
- Building and maintaining structures that strengthen collaboration and mutual accountability among partnership members
- Providing ongoing education and communication between members to strengthen a shared based of knowledge
- Engaging additional voices to provide expert insights, guidance, and direction in the partnership’s work
Advocacy
- Prioritizing key issues, particularly those affecting educational disparities and the transitions between critical stages of a student’s educational experience
- Recommending actions, strategies, and policies that advance shared priorities across Minnesota’s learning and workforce development landscape
- Advocating to remove structural barriers and inequities for learners and those who support them
- Identifying and influencing priorities across education and workforce development, with an emphasis on innovative, holistic, learner-centered strategies and resources
Equity
- Prioritizing and embedding efforts to strengthen equitable systems and outcomes across learning environments, in actionable and measurable ways
- Advocating for education and workforce development solutions that center historically excluded and marginalized populations
Data-Proven Practice
- Championing the use of integrated quantitative and qualitative data to drive, inform, and evaluate organizational and policy priorities
- Developing, tracking, and reporting key metrics through state longitudinal data systems (SLEDS and ECLDS) and other data sources related to the impact and outcomes of the partnership’s work