November 2014 Meeting Notes

Massachusetts Asian American Educator’s Association Meeting
Dorcester, MA
November 10, 2014
5:30PM - 7:30PM

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.
What do you want out of your career?
What makes a good teacher good?
Think of a teacher that impacted you?
Why did you come to this session? What are you worried about? What are some of the “but’s” that are preventing you from jumping in.
Affirmation as opposed to persuasion
Need a nudge/guidance – what you might need to do as opposed to COME!
We’ve been there and we decided to go there anyway. It worked out for us
What is the effect of having an Asian American teacher on different sorts of kids
Objectives:
PWABT
…describe the need for more APA educators across the state.
…identify challenges that APA students face.
…know pathways and logistics to become a teacher or educator (types of schools, grad school, alternative programs, income).
Do Now: Guess the data.
Districts that have the highest Asian student populations.
Of those districts, % of APA students vs. staff/teachers?
Presentation of Numbers
What do you notice about these numbers?
What surprised you?
Why do you think the data is this way?
Turn and Talk: What were some challenges you had as an Asian American student?
-Model minority myth
-Bullying
-Interpreting/Translating
-Culture disconnect
How might having an Asian teacher have helped?
Thought Jot: Describe a role model in an influential position that was of your same race or someone that shared your identity.
Ways to become a teacher/educator
Tet/Chinese New Year Celebration/Social Event
Vietnamese Educators:
Latin Academy
Latin School
Randolph
Rogers
Hold event in Dorchester, maybe in the Vietnamese community center, order from a local Vietnamese restaurant to invite Vietnamese educators to join our organization
Feb 19th is Chinese New Year
Look at some dates – 2/27, 2/28, 3/1, 3/6, 3/7, 3/8
Feb break is 15th to 20th

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