May 2014 Potluck Notes

May 2014 Potluck (5/4/2014) Notes
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, Katie Li, James Liou, Tim Nagaoka, Go Sasaki, Cynthia SooHoo
Agenda:
-Check In/Celebrations
-Revist Meeting & Organization Norms
-APA Heritage Month Event "The Untold Story of Asian Immigrant Students in BPS: An Interactive Historical Overview and Community Discussion"
-Open Mic/Forum
-Check In/Celebrations
  1. Rose/Thorn/Bud and Celebrations
-Revisit Meeting and Organization Norms
Meeting Norms:
  • Agree to Disagree
  • Step Up/Step Back
  • Confidentiality (Vegas Rule)
  • Share plot not characters, ask permission, safe place to vent and work through issues
Organization Norms:
  • Shared leadership structure
  • Consensus Model (Fist to Five)
  • Unified Front
  • Group Vision, Visible, Response to APA Issues, Spokesperson, Address Who to Include (non APAs?)
  • Meet Regularly (Summer flexible modes of participation)
  • Support Built into Meetings
  • Social Unplanned Time and Meals

Add norms for organization - rotate facilitation, have other jobs during meeting: timekeeper, norm checker - evaluate how we followed our norms
-APA Heritage Month Event
Should we hold it given our low turnout today?
Who could we realistically count on to come?
The event will go forward.
Initial vision for workshop:
Josiah Quincy Elementary School
2:00PM to 5:00PM
-Timeline of APA and APA immigrant students in BPS and Mingle
-Panel Discussion (history of and current Boston demographics, history of APA students in the Boston Area, History of and current APA leadership and voice in BPS, Current policies and changes affecting APA immigrant students)
-Breakout groups
New vision for workshop:
Josiah Quincy Elementary School Community Space Cafeteria
1:00PM to 4:00PM
-Timeline, food (brought by MAAEA members), and mingle,
-Discussion of topics in a large group (one topic at a time)
--Demographics - Peter Kiang (confirmed)
--History of APA students in the Boston Area - Suzanne Lee (confirmed)
--History of and current APA leadership and voice in BPS (some combination of Bak Fun Wong, Simon Ho, Richard Chang) TBD
--Current policies and changes affecting APA immigrant students (Thuy Truong
-Breakout Groups, Follow-up
--What do you need to know, what resources do you need? How can MAAEA help?
Logistics:
  • Richard will help pay for the plates, utensils, cups, napkins
  • Parking - available at Quincy Upper from 12:30PM to 1:00PM -
Sign ups needed:
  • Clean-up
  • Food sign-up
  • Someone to buy utensils, etc.
  • Someone in charge of mobilizing people
  • Facilitation, agenda, etc. (Chris Day and Katie Li)
  • Timeline (Katie and Cynthia)
  • Meet parkers at Quincy Upper between 12:30PM and 1:00PM and provide parking permits (Tim)
To Do List:
  • Cynthia contact Simon and Bak Fan
  • Go will follow-up with Jessica Tang re Thuy Truong.
  • Cynthia will get a microphone for the cafeteria.
  • Go will e-mail the sign-up list to MAAEA.
  • Go will make the evite and (already made) the facebook event.
  • Go will make the email to send folks about the event.
  • For the future - look into getting PLP credit for future. MAAEA Events - Tim
-Open Mic/Forum
  • Concerns about low attendence
  • Should we have MAAEA core/supporter groups?
  • Should we have a different leadership structure?
  • Ask people to commit to a certain level of commitment?
  • Let’s discuss in the future
Next meeting June 8 - Go and Richard facilitate
Proposed Agenda Items: what does participation in MAAEA look like?
Core list/supporter list
Announcements

Professor Paul Watanabe Speaking at Newton
Tuesday, May 6 at 6:30pm
Newton Free Library, Druker Auditorium
330 Homer Street, Newton, MA
Katie Li Presenting at 4th Annual Boston Education for Social Justice Conference (Reclaiming Our Schools Education for and by the People) Session #1
May 10, 2014
Mission Hill School * 25 Carolina Ave. * Jamaica Plain * Boston, MA

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