December 2014 Meeting Notes

Massachusetts Asian American Educator’s Association Meeting
Dorcester, MA
December 15, 2014
5:30PM - 7:30PM

Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com

People in Attendance: Go Sasaki, Katie Li, Ann Cheng, Pamela Chu, Richard Chang, Dzung Nguyen

Agenda:
Check-ins
Member Support Time
BASIC Event Debrief
Begin Planning New Years/Tet Social/Outreach event in February/March
Complete planning objectives for Spring and Summer

Check-ins:
wediko - complex trauma
Christina Brown - Center for collaborative education - good anti-racist trainer

BAASIC Event Debrief
BAASIC - very limited attendance - maybe because it was on Friday afternoon?  
-The workshop was expecting students to be a little further along in their racial identity development.

-Go will e-mail ECAASU to see if we can get in.

New Years/Tet Planning
-Objective
—Outreach to Vietnamese American Educators
—Networking with other Asian American Educators/people involved in education
—Raise awareness of MAAEA

Audience
-Teachers, People who do Youth Work,

Logistics
-Dzung will contact Michelle Hu about 2/28 or 3/7 hopefully by tomorrow.

Outreach
-Vietnamese educators at Higginson Lewis - Jessica Tang
-Lieu Nguyen
-Ed Schools - Peter Kiang
-ALANA Holiday thing - Katie and Go ask Kim V about BTR Educators
-Alumni - Peter Kiang, Suzanne Lee
-Tom Chen -

Program ideas - icebreaker, leave a comment on the wall about why you came, e.g. what do you think of ferguson, have people talk from different eras of MAAEA

Program
Introduction to MAAEA
Overview of Goals for Year
Structured Interactions
—e.g. why are you a teacher, what do you like best about your job, why did you come to this meeting?, As an Asian American, how did you talk to your students about Ferguson?, As an AA educator, do you feel supported to do your work?/how would you like to be supported to do your work?  Put data up and comment/react to it.  AA students need help too.  What do you see as struggles facing AA students. how does your family think of your job (meme - what I think about what I do, what does your family think about what you do?) (What dreams did your family have to give up on when you decided to become an educator)
What does it mean to be an Asian American educator? What is our identity and what is our impact?
-concentric circles,

Goals
-Promote anti-racist, progressive, social justice equitable practices in education (curriculum, hiring, etc.).
-Support/networking for Asian American educators.
-Network and build alliances with other progressive educators of color.

Identity and impact: what does it mean to be an Asian American Educator


To do:
program, logistics, MC, food - voluntary donation or potluck, think about child care, AV, mike, projector?

ideal number of people - 50-75
room capacity - 250+


6 Sign in, name tags, seating, mingling
6:30-7 icebreaker—concentric circles, getting to know you activity
7: posters around where people are waiting for food
7-8 eating
7:30 Overview of MAAEA (History, Goals, Work, Recruitment, Video Clip or Testimonial)
8: Announcement, Voluntary Donations, Programs/Handout
8:30 End


Dzung: 12/22 Get Room/Hall, 12/22 Email Chris about video about Asian students
Pam: 12/22 Search for MAAEA pamphlet, before 1/12 flier
Katie/Ann: 2/9 Feb MAAEA Meeting Program (activities, posters, sign in papers, etc.)
Go: 2/9 Logistics, Supplies, Food, Send Invite to Facebook and list serve
Richard: 1/12 Recruit and gather invite list: Ed Schools, MAAEA, Asian School leaders, 1/12 TedTalk Education/Identity/AsianAm

Next MAAEA Meeting: 1/12 Monday, 2/9 Monday

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