EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: DEVELOPMENT AND PARTNERSHIP DIVISION:
An Inventory of Its Records of Assistant Commissioner Nan Skelton at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota. Department of Education. Development and Partnership Division. | |
| Title: | Records of Assistant Commissioner Nan Skelton. | |
| Dates: | 1970-2004 (bulk 1985-1989). | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Records include AIDS prevention files, legislation files, secondary vocational education restructuring files, Whole Child Initiative program files, and selected subject files. | |
| Quantity: | 1.75 cubic feet (2 boxes); 2 master audio files: WAV (811 MB), and 2 user audio files: MP3 (148 MB). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Department of Education. Development and Partnership Division. Records of Assistant Commissioner Nan Skelton. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 2022-31
Location of Master Files:
Digital masters of the audiocassettes are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.
The original audiocassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into wav files.
Processing Information:
Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, May 3, 2022.
Digital audio transferred from the master audiocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (May 2022).
Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.
Catalog ID number: 9989815838604294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| 118.F.4.9B | AIDS prevention files, 1985-1989: | ||||||||||
| Assistant Commissioner Skelton coordinated the Education Department's project to develop a statewide education approach to AIDS and risk reduction, and collaborated with the Minnesota Health Department, the Minnesota Association of School Administrators and other organizations. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic. | |||||||||||
| Confronting the crisis conference, 1987. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| Education, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| First response team, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota Council on Foundations, 1987. | |||||||||||
| Press clips/articles, 1985-1986. | |||||||||||
| Public information, 1985-1989. | |||||||||||
| Senate hearing on AIDS and Health Department and Education Department briefing on AIDS, September 1987. | |||||||||||
| Senate workshop, 1987. | |||||||||||
| State Board of Education (SBE) rule/policy development, 1987-1988. | |||||||||||
| Statewide surveys, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| Strategic planning, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| Summaries of activities, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| Working papers, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| Internet | Speeches concerning the AIDS epidemic, 1987. | ||||||||||
| Speeches given at a conference held at the Spring Hill conference center in Wayzata, Minnesota. | |||||||||||
| The AIDS epidemic in Minnesota, July 12, 1987. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 13 minutes): WAV (371 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (66.2 MB). | |||||||||||
| Speech by Michael T. Osterholm, Minnesota state epidemiologist, Minnesota Health Department. | |||||||||||
| Related material: The AIDS epidemic in Minnesota is separately cataloged in the Minnesota GLBT Movement papers by Leo Treadway in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collection. | |||||||||||
 Digital audio | |||||||||||
| AIDS and Minnesota schools, July 14, 1987. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 27 minutes): WAV (440 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (82.2 MB). | |||||||||||
| Speeches by Marjorie Johnson (Minnesota Board of Education member), David E. Landswerk (Wayzata School District Superintendent), and Nan Skelton (Minnesota Education Department). | |||||||||||
| Digital audio | |||||||||||
| 118.F.4.9B | Legislation files, 1986-1990: | ||||||||||
| Includes correspondence, draft legislation, background information, bill summaries, and related records. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic. | |||||||||||
| Changed in extended day, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Children’s initiatives, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Community education, 1990. | |||||||||||
| Dropout legislation, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Dropout prevention, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Drug education, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Integration grants, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| Learners at risk, 1986-1989. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Lifelong learning, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Options and alternatives, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Outcome based education, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Prevention/at risk issue, 1988-1989. | |||||||||||
| Reaching more people, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Secondary vocational education restructuring files, 1987-1989: | |||||||||||
| In response to a 1988 mandate from the Minnesota Legislature, Assistant Commissioner Skelton coordinated the Education Department's effort to develop a restructured model for K-12 vocational education in the state. Includes correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, background information, and related records. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic. | |||||||||||
| Background information, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1987-1988. | |||||||||||
| Design document, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Meeting agendas and minutes, 1987-1988. | |||||||||||
| Restructured model, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Restructuring post-secondary vocational education, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Restructuring speeches, 1988-1989. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Strategy design group working folder, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Two Plus Two programs (technical preparation) proposal, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Work group retreat, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Working group meetings, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Working groups, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Whole Child Initiative program files, 1985-1987: | |||||||||||
| The Whole Child Initiative was a two year pilot program organized by the Education Department, in collaboration with other partners, to provide solutions for children who had problems that interfered with learning in school. Pilot programs were set up in the communities of Alexandria, Chaska, Crookston, Hugo, Kimball, Minneapolis, St. Paul, West St. Paul, Trimont and Willmar. Includes correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, speeches, background information, newspaper clippings, press releases and related records. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic. | |||||||||||
| Budget, 1986-1987. | |||||||||||
| Correspondence, 1985-1987. | |||||||||||
| Kick-off celebration speech and press conference, 1986. | |||||||||||
| 118.F.4.10F | Participating communities, 1986-1987. | ||||||||||
| Phase II youth development, 1988. | |||||||||||
| Program description annual work plan, 1985-1986. | |||||||||||
| Promotion and press releases, 1987-1988. | |||||||||||
| Steering committee minutes, 1986. | |||||||||||
| Whole Child Initiative, 1985-1987. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| Work session, 1986. | |||||||||||
| Working sessions, 1986. | |||||||||||
| Youth service/youth development conference, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Subject files, 1970-2004 (bulk dated 1986-1989): | |||||||||||
| Subject files of Assistant Commissioner Skelton from her tenure with the Education Department. Also, subject files from the time periods before and after she worked at the Education Department at organizations such as the Jane Addams School for Democracy, the West 7th Street Community Center, and the Oneida Community College. Includes correspondence, background material, reports, policies, proposals, and related records. Arranged in alphabetical order by topic or organization. | |||||||||||
| Adult literacy: Community education directors, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Adult literacy: Inter-agency adult learning advisory council, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Adult literacy: Inter-agency policy group, 1987-1988. | |||||||||||
| Alternative programs in Minnesota schools, 1987. | |||||||||||
| Anti-crime prevention, 1995. | |||||||||||
| At risk learners: Correspondence, 1986-1989. | |||||||||||
| At risk learners: State policy development, 1986-1987. | |||||||||||
| Children's policy academy, 1988-1989. 3 folders. | |||||||||||
| Children's agenda, 1989. | |||||||||||
| Creative visionaries project, 1986. | |||||||||||
| Jane Addams School for Democracy, 1997-2004. | |||||||||||
| Includes an intern’s journal concerning the children's learning circle, school history and description, and background materials. | |||||||||||
| Minnesota youth development plan workshop, 1987. | |||||||||||
| Oneida Community College, 1971. | |||||||||||
| St. Paul Youth Service Bureau, 2003. | |||||||||||
| Speech: "Together we can make a difference", 1987. | |||||||||||
| Given by Assistant Commissioner Skelton to the New Mexico Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting. | |||||||||||
| Urban Guerilla Award, 1988. | |||||||||||
| West 7th Community Center, 1970. | |||||||||||
| Includes program proposal, recommendations and evaluation. | |||||||||||
| West 7th Street health demonstration project: poverty target area "D", 1971. | |||||||||||
| Includes planning proposal and related documents. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Adult education -- Minnesota.
- AIDS (Disease) -- Minnesota -- Prevention.
- Community education -- Minnesota.
- Education -- Experimental methods.
- Education and state -- Minnesota.
- Education, Elementary -- Minnesota.
- Education, Secondary -- Minnesota.
- Educational innovations -- Minnesota.
- Educational planning -- Minnesota.
- Gifted children -- Education -- Minnesota.
- People with disabilities -- Education -- Minnesota.
- State departments of education -- Minnesota.
- Vocational education -- Minnesota.
- Vocational rehabilitation -- Minnesota.
- Persons:
- Skelton, Nan.
- Document Types:
- Files (digital files).
- Sound recordings.
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