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April 2015 Meeting Notes

Massachusetts Asian American Educator’s Association Meeting Dorcester, MA April 13, 2015 5:00PM - 7:00PM Blog: http://maaea.blogspot.com Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com People in Attendance: Go Sasaki, Katie Li, Ann Cheng, Andrea So, Jessica Tang, Rosann Tung Agenda: Check-ins Member Support Time New Superintendent Plan Spring and Summer Events Minutes: Discussion - Meeting with Superintendent Use a Racial Justice Framework for presentation What is working and not working in BPS?  SEI? Something to consider - Early Warning Implementation System An automated system that takes info on students - suspensions, etc. Schools with low risk students are resourced the same as schools with high risk students. Fund schools based on these numbers, vs based on basic numbers of ELs, SpEd, etc. Demographic information: Office of Human Capital has contacted us - they can get us information for staffing. Ethnic level information not availab...

March 2015 Meeting Notes

Massachusetts Asian American Educator’s Association Meeting Dorcester, MA March 23, 2015 5:30PM - 7:30PM Blog: http://maaea.blogspot.com Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com People in Attendance: Go Sasaki, Katie Li, Ann Cheng, Dzung Nguyen, Tuyet Dinh, Andrea Agenda: Check-ins Member Support Time New Superintendent Plan Spring and Summer Events TAG Conference May 30, 2015 at the Curley in JP Will be more of an unconference - Less structured Maybe present on Model Minority Myth, Needs of APA students New Superintendent - Tommy Chang What is he like? Michelle Wu met with Tommy Chang Goal: Put together a presentation similar to what happened with Superintendent Johnson Last time: Presentation by Peter Kiang Student Panel - addressing model minority/ Q&A History of MAAEA New meeting: Present it as the START of the dialog with him Asks for Superintendent Chang -bimonthly meeting Program: Panel: Chinese and Vi...