According to msan.wceruw.org MSAN has works to build a community of student learners that want to engage in a common to work with their school districts to:
- Engaging in collaborative research in which practitioners and researchers are equal partners in designing, conducting, and publishing research
- Evaluating programs intended to raise the academic achievement of students of color
- Conducting training and professional development activities for district teachers and administrators relative to the MSAN mission
- Creating opportunities for students to guide the work of the organization
- Disseminating results of Network activities among MSAN districts and the larger educational community.
- http://msan.wceruw.org/about/index.html
MSAN MissionTo understand and change school practices and structures that keep racial opportunity/achievement gaps in place.
This information is from former students that had been to MSAN either in 2016 and 2017.
IN 2016
Cherished says that "MSAN is a lot about how there is a majority and a minority and how we need to close that academic gap to better students and the community".
Aidan said that "I learned a lot about the impact that MSAN has on other students by seeing the amount of students at the conference and how other peoples background help you understand how you can kind of develop different ideas that you can take back to your school". "Also Iv'e learned and taken into account that when we have our meetings with the group and the teachers he figured out that our core issues in school are. Also the developing of a plan that we put into action of how we can help the minority student population" "rise".
In 2017
Andrew says that "MSAN had made you find a way to solutions for the problems that your school is having and for the minority students".
Facts
I think that MSAN helped me through a lot of things. I used to not know what MSAN really meant but now I do and it helps me a lot. I would come to school and not everyone would be the same color as me and I knew that. Finally when people started getting racist and were mean to other people I felt like I had to do something about it. So I went to MSAN with East Lansing High School and my mom. I went to North Carolina in 2016 with a great group of friends and I walked in and I learned that everyone is just like me. We were all the same color and we understood each other and figured out that we are all going through the same situation at school and outside of school.
In 2017 I went to Cleveland Heights with another great group of people and I learned even more about minority students. Its made A great impact on my life and I hope to make it better and bring it to Bath High School. Most people ask me what it is and my reaction is to tell them everything I know about so that the word gets around. It's very sad that no one knows what it even means and to be that breaks my heart because it's a big part in my life.
A lot of people think that it's just black people getting together and that's not it at all. I mean it is but that's not all. We do activities like when we get together with other schools. We have ice breakers and have speakers come in. We go on college visits and have a dance on fridays (just like homecoming). We do a lot of fun things and hope to get a group from Bath to come and join because I think people will be surprised with what they come back with.
IN 2016
Cherished says that "MSAN is a lot about how there is a majority and a minority and how we need to close that academic gap to better students and the community".
Aidan said that "I learned a lot about the impact that MSAN has on other students by seeing the amount of students at the conference and how other peoples background help you understand how you can kind of develop different ideas that you can take back to your school". "Also Iv'e learned and taken into account that when we have our meetings with the group and the teachers he figured out that our core issues in school are. Also the developing of a plan that we put into action of how we can help the minority student population" "rise".
In 2017
Andrew says that "MSAN had made you find a way to solutions for the problems that your school is having and for the minority students".
Facts
I think that MSAN helped me through a lot of things. I used to not know what MSAN really meant but now I do and it helps me a lot. I would come to school and not everyone would be the same color as me and I knew that. Finally when people started getting racist and were mean to other people I felt like I had to do something about it. So I went to MSAN with East Lansing High School and my mom. I went to North Carolina in 2016 with a great group of friends and I walked in and I learned that everyone is just like me. We were all the same color and we understood each other and figured out that we are all going through the same situation at school and outside of school.
In 2017 I went to Cleveland Heights with another great group of people and I learned even more about minority students. Its made A great impact on my life and I hope to make it better and bring it to Bath High School. Most people ask me what it is and my reaction is to tell them everything I know about so that the word gets around. It's very sad that no one knows what it even means and to be that breaks my heart because it's a big part in my life.
A lot of people think that it's just black people getting together and that's not it at all. I mean it is but that's not all. We do activities like when we get together with other schools. We have ice breakers and have speakers come in. We go on college visits and have a dance on fridays (just like homecoming). We do a lot of fun things and hope to get a group from Bath to come and join because I think people will be surprised with what they come back with.