June 2014 Potluck Notes

June 2014 Potluck (6/8/2014)
Jobs With Justice
3353 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com

Attendees: Richard Chang, Christopher Day, Katie Li, Tim Nagaoka, Go Sasaki, Jessica Tang

Agenda:
-Check-in
-Debrief Event
-MAAEA Goals for Next Year
-Leadership/Membership Structure


MAAEA May Event Debrief
Pluses
Deltas
-Well organized event (well structured)
-Attendance was very decent
-MC, Videographer, Panel Facilitator
-Many people hearing this for the first time, not just preaching to ourselves
-Good idea to get graduate students (continue for next steps!)
-Hope that children got something from it.
-Heard good things through the grapevine about the event
-Lorrayne stepped in for the event. Poised, great!
-Heard questions from people that don’t normally have voice.
-Recruit more from teacher programs (graduate programs) next year.
-Don’t worry about parking for next time.
-Too much work for a few people. (it wasn’t the plan)
-Reaching out to Vietnamese community (Peter Kiang was talking about UMass AA Studies students)
-Explicit structures for networking next time
-More senior members of community being mentors
-Didn’t hear the audio of the questions (not just writing down questions)
-Different structures for participation (Parking lot wall, chalk talk, group questions)
-Identifying other folks in the audience (asking expertise of the room, write down contact and area of expertise on poster paper).
-Not representative of AAPA community (where was the South Asian community)
-Panelists went over the time.
-Need to continue this event (make an annual event)

MAAEA Goals for Next Year
What are we doing for this next year? Who will be involved?
Write down: What they want from MAAEA this next year. What purpose do you want it to serve. (What would excite you to get involved?) Start with a verb.
[Categorize and Combine: Internal vs. External Work] (not done yet)
[Put a star (or initials) next to the items you think you personally will have capacity to do.] (not done yet)

MAAEA Priorities
•    Conduct formal research, interviews and survey of students and teachers to find out what are the priorities. *
•    Build and strengthen MAAEA (capacity)
•    Develop school leadership and district leadership for APA educators.
•    Promote Asian culture and language.
•    Promote anti-racist, progressive, social justice* equitable practices in education and how the APA community is involved in public education.
•    Explicit positions and official position, political values of MAAEA, points of unity or what we believe together.
•    Define what we mean by Asian or APA or APIA, or 1st/2nd generation, pan-APA identity, coming to a definition of what it means to be Asian American.
•    Support/networking for Asian American educators. **
•    Retention of APA educators.
•    Get PDPs for attending meetings.
•    Advocate for APA students and teachers.
•    Use art and cultural work to support our political work.
•    Voice in curriculum development for humanities (Asian American Studies)
•    Learn about events and policies that affect APA students and teachers.
•    Network  and build alliances with other progressive educators of color.
•    Diversity in our membership and leadership team (especially more experienced teachers 20+ years)

Leadership/Membership Structure (not discussed)

July: BBQ at Chris’ House
Next Meeting: August 24 to decide on MAAEA priorities

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