Nicole Bates has 20 years of experience in k-12 education with the St. Paul Public Schools district in Minnesota. In that context she has been a classroom teacher, coached teachers, been an administrator, and coached administrators. Currently, she is engaged in providing equity professional development, coaching, and support across the district. She has a Masters of Education and is pursuing her doctoral studies in culture and teaching through the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Minnesota. In her role as the SPPS navigator for Project TRUST (Teaching Resiliency in Urban Teachers and Students) she has worked with both the YPAR (youth participatory action research) and PPAR projects. In working with PPAR she has mostly assisted with implementation and dissemination of their work.
