Working Group Meetings

• Agenda - TBD

• Agenda - TBD

• Agenda
• December 10, 2025 - Meeting Minutes
• MDE Follow-up Data
• MDE Student Support Personnel Aid
• Compiled Recommendations
• AML007-7 - Seclusion Amendment
• Draft Seclusion Working Group Report
• Public Testimony - Kelly Quin
• Public Testimony - Keri Watson
• Public Testimony - Nikki VanOeveren
• Public Testimony - Melissa Hanson
• Public Testimony - Heather Kosec
• Public Testimony - Brianna Hansen
• Public Testimony - Matt Bruns
• Public Testimony - Mollie Raab
• Public Testimony - Ivy Jorgenson
• Public Testimony - Corey Stocco
• Public Testimony - Amaya Helmin
• Public Testimony - Tiffany Jensen
• Public Testimony - Colleen Carlson
• Public Testimony - Marcy Doud
• Public Testimony - Amy Rice
• Public Testimony - Jenna French Greff
• Public Testimony - Matt Newquist
• Public Testimony - Cara McGlynn
• Public Testimony - Melissa Schaller
• Public Testimony - Isabella Kranz
• Public Testimony - Elisabeth Lodge Rogers
• Public Testimony - Jennifer Marquardt
• Public Testimony - Susan Knutsen
• Public Testimony - Jackie Pauley
• Public Testimony - AJ Boehmer
• Public Testimony - Dr. Val Rae Boe
• Public Testimony - Ann Strom
• Public Testimony - Amy Swaney
• Public Testimony - Brooke Peterson
• Public Testimony - Janet Fimmen, Andrea Engstrom
• Public Testimony - Katie Wheelock
• Public Testimony - Matt Shaver, EdAllies
• Public Testimony - Education Minnesota

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• Agenda
• November 19th, 2025 - Meeting Minutes
• Member Recommendations - Nicole Woodward, Kate Hulse, Dave Haveman
• Member Recommendations – Melissa Winship
• Member Recommendations – Greta Kjos/NAMI
• Member Recommendations – Erin Sandsmark and Jessica Heiser
• Grafton Written Testimony
• MDE Follow-up Data

• Agenda
• November 5, 2025 - Meeting Minutes
• Supplemental Materials – GAO Restraint and Seclusion Report
• Supplemental Materials – U.S. Department of Education Restraint and Seclusion: Resource Document Intro
• Supplemental Materials – U.S. Department of Education Restraint and Seclusion: Resource Document
• Supplemental Materials – Katsiyannis (Available Upon Request)
• Supplemental Materials – Keeping All Students Safe Act
• Supplemental Materials – Office for Civil Rights
• Supplemental Materials – Review of U.S. Policy Guidance and Legislation on Restraint and Seclusion in Schools:
• Supplemental Materials – Secretary Cardona Seclusion and Restraints Policy Letter
• Supplemental Materials – Sanctioned Abuse: Corporal Punishment
• Legal Aid and Solutions not Suspensions Testimony
• MDE - List of local education agencies (LEAs) from FY20 through 25
• Minnesota Department of Education Decision Letters
• Minneapolis Public Schools follow-up information

• Agenda
• October 25, 2025 - Meeting Minutes
• Effects of SMH Services on Youth Outcomes 2023
• SBMH Policy Brief
• Using Data to Inform Program Design and Implementation and Make the Case for School Mental Health
• Final-SMH-Testimony-Nov-2025-Presentation
• Department of Human Services Presentation

• Agenda
• October 8, 2025 - Meeting Minutes
• Site Visit District 916 Seclusion Data
• Site Visit District 916 Seclusion Data by Program
• Site Visit Pankalo Tier 1 Academic Supports
• Site Visit Pankalo Tier 1 SEB Supports
• 125A.0942 Standards for Restrictive Procedures
• Fridley Public Schools Ukeru Presentation
• ISD 196 Presentation - Updated and redacted version to protect student privacy

This is an informational site visit. No business will be conducted.

• Agenda
• September 17. 2025 - Meeting Minutes
• MPS Presentation
• Physical Holding Status Report
• Seclusion Demographic Statistics
• Anonymous Seclusion Accounts
• External Seclusion Room Report

• Agenda
• August 13, 2025 - Meeting Minutes
• ISD 916 & 917 Presentation
• Department of Education Presentation
• Districts Reporting Use of Seclusion in 2024-25 School Year
• Minnesota Local Education Agency Seclusion Rooms

• Agenda
• Open Meeting
• Enabling Legislation
• Restrictive Procedures – Current Statute
• FY24 Restrictive Procedures Legislative Report
• Legislative Open Meeting Law memo
• Overview of Seclusion Working Group Enabling Legislation