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Origins of MnEDS

The Minnesota Educator Dispositions System (MnEDS™) was conceived by members of the Teacher Education Research Initiative (TERI) Research Group, a collection of graduate students and staff members, who volunteered to meet weekly to discuss teacher education - the issues they were experiencing in their work as student teaching supervisors, methods instructors, and PLC leaders as well as the research underway through courses projects and dissertation studies. Over the course of four years, this group of graduate students, with leadership from faculty, Dr. Mistilina Sato and Dr. Martha Bigelow, imagined a new way of assessing and coaching teacher candidates’ dispositional growth, then set about the arduous work of creating it. Though a small number of us have worked through these final stages to bring the assessment to where we are now: piloting the work with initial licensure students across multiple licensure programs, the creation of this assessment has always been a collective and collaborative effort. Thus we recognize all of those who contributed to its development along the way.

Jehanne Beaton, Martha Bigelow, Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Stacy Ernst, Stephanie Hicks, Mary Hoelscher, Su Jung Kim, Amy Jo Lundell, Annie Mason, Michelle McElroy, Shannon McManimon, Mistilina Sato, Miranda Schornack, Erin Stutelberg, Jessica Tobin, Jill Torres, Fang (Andie) Wang, Jessica Winkelaar.

The MnEDS Research Group

All supporting materials and resources, including coaching questions and implementation activities have been created by members of the Minnesota Educator Dispositions System Research Group and its affiliates including: Jehanne Beaton, Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Justin P. Jiménez, Su Jung Kim, Abby Rombalski, Misty Sato, Amanda Shopa, Miranda Schornack, and Jessica Tobin.  We would also like to acknowledge Alec Rutten who provided initial technical expertise for this website.