Our Educators
Megan Earnest, M.Ed.
Principal and Owner, Megan has the skills and knowledge to help you improve professional practice and student achievement.
As a licensed science educator and the architect of the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum K-12 Education Programs, I am passionate about helping teachers, administrators and scholars reach the next level in their learning, especially as it relates to our new MN Science Standards, Diversity, Equity, Access and Inclusion, STEAM, Educational Technology Integration, and the Practices of Science and Engineering. Experienced in phenomena based instruction, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), the Framework for K-12 Science Education, the practices of science and engineering, modeling, and the Minnesota Science Standards, I am able to help educators and administration make sense of it all! DCI’s, CCC, SEPs? I am here to help.
Licensed 9-12 Chemistry and Life Science Teacher MN (most recently at Eastview High School in Apple Valley)
Licensed 5-12 Science Teacher IL
University of Minnesota PhD Candidate in STEM Education and Biotechnology
AVID Instructor
Architect of the Bell Museum’s K-12 Education Programs
MN Science Standards Revision Committee Member
Minnesota Science Teachers Association Committee Member
Science Leadership Council
SciMathMN Board Member
OutFront MN Committee Member
Science Education Consultant
Experience in Biotechnology Research and Molecular Biology at University of Wisconsin Madison in Department of Bacteriology
Renee Boney-Jett
Renee is a Moderator with Earnest Educational Solutions and a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota. Renee brings her professional experience, as well as her identity as a Black woman, scholar, graduate of Saint Paul Public Schools, and emerging artist and author to our work in equity and learning. She is a passionate accomplice and advocate for community representation and centers and grounds our work in equity, inclusion, diverse perspectives, and social justice.
As a graduate of the University of Minnesota, she studied the culture of curriculum and learning spaces for African Americans in the United States and various African diasporas across the world. This included working and conducting research at the Nairobi National Museum in Kenya that analyzed community outreach work. As an alumna of a fellowship program with the Minnesota History Center, she learned what it means to truly center inclusion-first diversity work by making employee training materials and public education projects targeted towards Minnesota’s communities of color. As a Student Guide at the Bell Museum, our State’s Natural History Museum and Planetarium, Renee worked with Megan to support science education programs and projects for diverse audiences.
Earnest Educational Solutions is proud to support Renee in her recent creative venture, the development of a children’s book and accompanying curriculum on the history of Black community organizing.
“As a Black student graduate from the Saint Paul Public School system, I hope to provide a perspective in the workshops that reflects the pride I have for my community while critically evaluating how to best serve our students of color.” Renee Boney-Jett
Hillary Barron, Phd
Coming Soon!
Megan Earnest
“As a Black student graduate from the Saint Paul Public School system, I hope to provide a perspective that reflects the pride I have for my community while critically evaluating how to best serve our students of color.”
Renee Boney-Jett