November 2014 Meeting Notes
Massachusetts Asian American Educator’s Association Meeting Dorcester, MA November 10, 2014 5:30PM - 7:30PM Blog: http://maaea.blogspot.com Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com People in Attendance: Go Sasaki, Katie Li, Jessica Tang, Ann Cheng, Marie Zhang, Lieu Nguyen, Richard Chang BAASIC Workshop Brainstorm Why do you think the numbers are this way? Reflect on your own education and whether or not you had Asian American role models in education and how they might/might not have affected you? What is it like being an Asian American educator? What did you grow up thinking you’d be? What do your parents want you to be? What are different roles in education that you can have? Which ones have impacted you? Asians and expectations around accents and where did you learn you couldn’t be a teacher? What might prevent Asians from being teachers? Within the culture? Within the education system? Glass ceilings—Asians need to be over qualified. Wh...