MAAEA

February 12: We had a productive meeting despite being a small group. Here were some of the decisions made: We will be co-sponsoring an upcoming book talk for Kevin Kumashiro's new book The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools . It will be located at Tufts University, Department of Education, April 29, 2008 from 6-8pm. More info to come! We will also be helping to outreach the Race and Achievement series that Simmons College organizes. A few of us are going to the education advocates summit being sponsored by AALDEF and being held in New York in April. Information about it has gone out over the MAAEA listserve. We will be moving on building a curriculum resource on Asian American studies that we can eventually submit to the history chair of the Boston Public Schools. If anyone wants to contribute lessons they've used, please contact us: apa.educators@gmail.com. That's it in a nutshell. Our next meeting will be a mid-w...

The next Curriculum Team Meeting will be: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 6:30-7:30 Jessica Tang's house in Dorchester We will be looking carefully through Boston's History Standards and pacing guide to examine the content areas in which AA history can specifically be included. We will be focusing on how we can add to the language of the standards to be inclusive of AA history and identify specific content areas in which to build curricular or resource guides around. We can use the help of anyone interested--especially American history buffs! Contact apa.educators@gmail.com for more information and to RSVP.