MAAEA

Our next general meeting is TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2008 6:30-8:30PM Jessica Tang's house in Dorchester Contact apa.educators@gmail.com for more information and to RSVP!

Hi everyone! We're the group working on building a structure for MAAEA. We're building a website and also establishing a membership structure. We "met" by phone on Thursday, 1/24/08 and decided to work on the following: research membership structures for other organizations and associations and put together a proposal for a structure for MAAEA; collect/ create text for some of the static sections of our proposed website (about MAAEA, project areas); start collecting/compiling resources for that section of our proposed website; research hosting services for our website; talk to a few people who may be able to help us design our website; and begin looking at other websites to find designs we ourselves might like and want to imitate. We welcome new members to our workgroup! If you're interested, contact us at apa.educators@gmail.com. Thanks! Erin, Kristina, Lusa, and Sophia

We've been busy this past several months since our summer gathering. We're hoping to keep more up-to-date and become a used blog, so visit back often! One big accomplishment was organizing "Evening with the Superintendent" for December 18, 2007. It was an event that brought together teachers, community leaders and members, administrators, and youth workers. All together, about 50 people showed up through the night. Professor Peter Kiang from UMass Boston gave an informative powerpoint presentation on "Education and Boston's Asian American Communities." A UMass Boston student, Son-Ca Lam, gave a moving performance on her experiences as an immigrant student in Boston Public Schools. And a panel of 4 BPS students ended the night with personal experiences of Asian American students of diverse background. The Superintendent, Carol Johnson, was engaged and interested in all the information offered and seemed interested in continuing conversations and rel...