About EdAllies
If Minnesota is serious about helping all children thrive, we need to make sure that historically underserved students—children of color, students with special needs, children from low-income households, and English Learners—finally receive the rigorous, engaging education they need and deserve.
What Drives Us
To transform education in Minnesota, creating a just system where every student is supported to succeed.
We envision a Minnesota where education catalyzes lifelong opportunity for every student.
At Our Best
Our values describe who we are when we are at our best. They represent our team's shared commitment to one another and how we aspire to interact with external partners, stakeholders, and the broader community.
We set ambitious goals and keep working through setbacks to reach them.
We pursue bold ideas and creative solutions instead of settling for what has always been done.
Our view is limited, so we build relationships with partners who broaden it, and we share credit for what we achieve together.
We advocate for a system that prioritizes the needs of students and families from historically underserved communities, and we practice, as a team, the fairness we want to see in our schools.
Our work is rooted in truth, evidence, and honesty about what is and isn’t working for students. We do not hoard knowledge; we share it in the hopes it will lead to positive change.
Our Approach
Minnesota is home to persistent achievement, opportunity, and belief gaps that hold students back from their full potential. We work to reshape our education system to meet the needs of all students, with an emphasis on those whose needs and assets have been overlooked for too long.
We work with families, teachers, and school leaders to find the most promising strategies for success, as well as roadblocks getting in the way. Next, we relentlessly remove barriers in policy and practice to scale up what's working and stop what's not.
Too often education conversations center on the needs of adults and systems. They focus on students' weaknesses rather than their strengths, suggesting that not all kids can succeed. We reject that. We believe that every child is capable of greatness—and that we need more candid, productive conversations centered on students and families.
Get to Know Us
Our team members have diverse backgrounds in teaching, government, research, communications, and policy, but we all have one thing in common: we know that every Minnesota student can excel.
Learn MoreSchool, business, and community leaders, policy experts, and parents whose shared commitment to equity pushes this work forward.
Learn MoreExplore careers and programs, including EdVoices, EdFellows, and Community Allies.
Learn MoreWe'd love to hear from you. Reach the team or send a note and we'll get back to you.
Learn MoreDirectly Support Our Mission
Fuel advocacy that puts underserved Minnesota students first.
Minnesota students are counting on us. Add your voice today.
