The Strength-Indicator
A four-audience survey that shows each school where student-centered learning is strong — and where it's growing. Results come back as a clear, automated report, ready to share with staff, students, and families.
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MLCN connects Minnesota educators, students, and partners who put learners at the center — a network to see your strengths, share what's working, and gather with schools doing the same.
Mission, vision & values
Our mission is to connect and empower educators and students to disrupt systemic racism and to transform learning environments to be student-centered; equitable, relevant, engaging and designed with and for all students.
Our vision is an anti-racist society and a just world through an equitable, anti-racist education.
MLCN members honor the humanity of student-centered learning — recognizing and valuing the uniqueness of each person and school they represent.
MLCN members align the supporting work of partner organizations to the needs of school practitioners — collaborating around new ideas and learning together.
MLCN members lift the stories of students and teachers creating the narrative of the student-centered learning movement.
MLCN members recognize the current educational system is based on the values of white culture that perpetuates oppression through racist policy, practice, and bias.
What we do
MLCN is more than a directory. Three connected surfaces help member schools see, share, and grow learner-centered practice across Minnesota.
A four-audience survey that shows each school where student-centered learning is strong — and where it's growing. Results come back as a clear, automated report, ready to share with staff, students, and families.
Take a tour
A directory of MLCN member schools and partners. A map of learner-centered Minnesota. Profiles, stories, ways to connect.
Explore the network
Member-contributed resources, student project showcases, and school visits. Tagged by principle, searchable by what matters.
Browse the libraryThe spine
Researched and defined by our partners at Education Evolving. A common language, not a prescription — adapted by each school to fit its students, its place, its people.
Framework defined by Education Evolving.
Around the network
A statewide network — charter, district, alternative — from the Twin Cities to the rural southeast. A rotating look at member schools doing the work.
Student voice
A growing archive of work from MLCN classrooms — public defenses, prototypes, performances, fieldwork. Browse by principle, subject, or grade.
For Minnesota schools
School-level membership unlocks the Strength-Indicator tool, member-only resources, and access to schools doing this work alongside yours. Free for the 2026–27 pilot year.
Joining as an individual? Free member accounts are open — no school required.
Students see themselves — language, history, community — reflected in the work.
Read moreLearners drive choices about what, how, when, and with whom they learn.
Read moreProblems worth solving, sourced from the places students actually live.
Read moreStudents advance when they've shown they can do the work — not when the calendar says so.
Read moreSchool isn't only the building or the bell. Learning travels with the learner.
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