Subject: PD Workshops Networks - Winter 2026

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BrightWorks has FREE COMPASS offerings provided by MDE COMPASS Funding this Winter for School Climate & Culture, Attendance, and Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership!

COMPASS Attendance Pathways


 Improving Attendance - A Statewide Networking Event

Connect with school and district leaders from across Minnesota to share ideas, explore attendance challenges, and learn how others are putting effective practices into action.

Facilitated conversations include:

  • Attendance Data & Dashboards: Explore how districts are using attendance data, dashboards, and tools to identify patterns and inform action.

  • Attendance Resources in Practice: Discuss practical applications of the MnMTSS Attendance Guidebook and Attendance Works' 2026 Attendance Playbook

  • Attendance Challenges & Solutions: Bring questions and real-world challenges to explore approaches, exchange ideas, and learn from colleagues across Minnesota.

Audience: Principals and School Leaders


When: Friday, November 13. 1:00PM - 3:00PM


Where: Virtual via Zoom


Have a question, challenge, or idea worth exploring? COMPASS Attendance Leads will guide conversations where leaders can exchange experiences, explore different approaches, and discover ideas to bring back to their schools and districts.


Learn more and join the COMPASS Attendance Team, in this pathway via Zoom (Pages 16-20). Follow this link to join day of via Zoom

COMPASS Climate and Culture Pathways


 Strengthening School Climate for Safe, Supportive, and Equitable Schools

These COMPASS Climate and Culture professional learning pathways provider leaders and educators with practical strategies, tools, and support to build positive school climates where all students and staff can thrive.

Topics include:

  • Building Compassion Resilience for Student Support Personnel

  • Positive School Climate Strategies to Improve Attendance and Engagement

  • Social Emotional Learning (SEL)

  • Supporting Staff Wellbeing

  • Code of Conduct Review and Revision

  • School Climate Improvement Process

  • Supportive Discipline Practices

  • Trauma-Informed Practices for Safe and Supportive Schools


Learn more and join Cristin Craig, COMPASS Regional Culture & Climate Team, in one of these pathways (Pages 20-29). Learn More Here

COMPASS Statewide Attendance Pathways


Strengthen Attendance. Choose your Pathway

Attendance improvement is complex. Your professional learning should meet your team where you are and help you move toward stronger, more sustainable systems.


Three Pathways. One shared goal:

  1. Comprehensive Pathway - Improving attendance utilizing the MnMTSS framework. 9 sessions l September - May. Examine attendance across the full system - from infrastructure and continuous improvement to family engagement, belonging, tiered supports, data use and sustainable charge.

  2. Focused Pathway - Data-based attendance strategies. 4 sessions l Fall or Spring. Move from collecting attendance data to using it: strengthen data structures, uncover patterns, visualize the story, analyze root causes and monitor progress.

  3. Focused Pathway - Building a strong attendance team. 4 sessions l Fall or Spring. Strengthen collaborative linked teams, establish clear data protocols, uncover barriers through root-cause analysis and engage families as partners.

 Learn more and explore other Attendance pathways, (Pages 16-20). Click Here.

COMPASS Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership (CRIL)


Introduction to Culturally Responsive Instructional Leadership

Lead from who you are. Lead for who you serve.

Together we will:

  • Reflect on how identity and lived experience shape how we understand the world, and how we lead within it.

  • Examine how our ways of knowing influcence leadership decisions, instructional practices, and school systems.

  • Build understanding of how race, culture, and history continue to shape schooling in Minnesota today.

  • Experience and practice culturally responsive leadership strategies to use with the people we serve: young people, staff, caretakers, and community members.


When: Tuesday, December 1st from 10:00AM to 2:30PM


Where: BrightWorks - 2 Pine Tree Drive, Arden Hills, MN, 55112


Facilitated by: Derek Francis & Lydia Lindsoe, COMPASS Culturally Responsive Leads


Learn more and join the COMPASS CRIL Team for this in-person event. Register Here by Tuesday, November 17

Not able to make it on December 1st? See pages 29-32 of the COMPASS MnMTSS Professional Learning Catalog 2026-2027 for more CRIL offerings.

Click here to explore more upcoming PD offerings.

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