HILD’s Collaborative Solutions
HILD offers five programs throughout the year. Check back for updates and registration information.
Project Shoptalk
HILD facilitates learning specialists, mentor-educators, and behavioral coaches to develop STEAM skills, interests, and identities through family and youth leadership development and learning opportunities that focus on the intellectual and cultural assets of the African American community. Mentors and coaches will implement learning activities in community-based learning spaces such as schools, libraries and public-serving cultural institutions across the Twin- Cities.
The Hurston Institute for Learning and Development (HILD) is launching a community STEM mentorship-scholarship program that provides under-resourced Minnesota youth with virtual and face-to-face STEM learning opportunities and academic scholarships toward post-secondary education
STEAMbassadors
Community mentors implement learning activities that develop STEAM skills, interests, and identities. Mentors will work in schools, libraries, and parks across Minneapolis. HILD will also partner postsecondary researchers and practitioners with city agencies and community-based organizations to map STEAM programs city-wide and track youth participation, satisfaction, and outcomes to measure the link between programming and student success.
Summer Teen Arts Council
This program apprentices youth in an understanding of the power relationships inherent in material culture so they can identify issues relevant to their lives and problem-solve for change. We will expand our current partnership with the Walker Art Center to provide arts-learning activities for teens from low-income, non-dominant communities in North Minneapolis and we will build a similar partnership with at least one other local arts organization.
Art Platforming Action (APA)
We engage art museum-based educators in a six-month online curriculum, which joins Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) with STEAM learning strategies to help educators build a broad base of transferable, domain-specific knowledge that will better support African American young people’s academic success.
Crossing Over to Canaan
HILD engages African American families through learning experiences and coaching that build STEAM, literacy, and workplace skills and values; promote self-direction and empowerment; and support healthy relationships, effective communication, and conflict resolution.
For more information on our SUMMER 2021 workshops, seminars, and learning events, contact us at info@hurstongroup.com
