MAAEA

Massachusetts Asian American Educator’s Association Meeting Dorcester, MA January 12, 2015 5:30PM - 7:30PM Blog: http://maaea.blogspot.com Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com People in Attendance: Go Sasaki, Katie Li, Ann Cheng, Pamela Chu, Marie Zhang, Dzung Nguyen, Lieu Nguyen Agenda: Check-ins Member Support Time Plan New Years/Tet Social/Outreach event in February/March Dzung we have the space for free! Yay 2/28 5-9 (start event at 6) Pam: has flier, and Sarah has pamphlet Editing flyer Event - Emphasize Social/Networking? Food: buy fried rice and noodles To do: Dzung tell them how much we need - mikes, etc. Dzung:  before 2/9 Catherine Chiu, Email Chris about video about Asian students; wait until budget - look into donationas for fried rice and noodles Katie/Ann: 2/9 Feb MAAEA Meeting Program (activities, posters, sign in papers, etc.) Go: 1/19 - contact richard, ask Jessica re MAAEA history piece, color copies, BTU bull...

Massachusetts Asian American Educator’s Association Meeting Dorcester, MA December 15, 2014 5:30PM - 7:30PM Blog: http://maaea.blogspot.com 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/...

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...

Agenda for October 6, 2014 Josiah Quincy Upper School 900 Washington St., Boston MA 02111 October 6, 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, Selena Tan, Jennifer Doo, Lieu Nguyen, Dzung Nguyen, Richard Chang Agenda Check-ins Member Support Time Research APA populations and Educator numbers in MA Complete planning objectives for Spring and Summer BASIC Event Planning Look ahead to Winter Events and Vietnamese outreach Brainstorm about what we want to know Pick priority questions Research/Data Questions 1.      How many Asian teachers in each school? Attrition rate of each teacher? 2.      Applicants? Hires? Retentions? 3.      Breakdown of Asian demographics (ethnicities) 4.      Hiring pool data? (goal if you are tryin...

MAAEA September Meeting Josiah Quincy Upper School 900 Washington St., Boston MA 02111 September 8, 2014 5:30PM - 7:30PM Blog: http://maaea.blogspot.com Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com People in Attendance: Go Sasaki, Pamela Chu, Katie Li, Jessica Tang, Jonathan Yip, Richard Chang, Ann Cheng, Sandi Tang, Marie Zhang, Sarah Chang Agenda: -Check-Ins -Why did you become an educator?  What issues do you face as an APA involved in education? -MAAEA History -Member Support Time -MAAEA Calendar MAAEA History Troubleshooting Issues MAAEA Calendar of Events: One event per season this year. Fall : Presentation/Workshop at BASIC (11/21) “Why Become an Asian American Educator?” Objective: Recruit more APA teachers to the profession Winter : Lunar New Year/Tet Dinner - Reach out to SE Asian members and populations Spring : TAG Conference Summer : BBQ Next Meeting: October 6, 2014 Josiah Quincy Upper School 5:30PM - 7:30PM Ob...

MAAEA August Potluck Meeting Jobs With Justice 3353 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 August 22, 2014 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Blog: http:// maaea .blogspot.com Google Group: maaea @googlegroups.com People in Attendance: Go Sasaki, Pamela Chu, Katie Li, Jessica Tang, Sue Hua, Daniel Nguyen Agenda: -Check-Ins -Why did you become an educator?  What issues do you face as an APA involved in education? - MAAEA History - MAAEA Priorities -Leadership Structures MAAEA History: 1980’s – MAAEA founded, with approximately 40 members.  Did a variety of events including intergenerational discussion – high school students on a panel discussing issues they face to elementary student parents., scholarship fund for APA educators, advocating for APA teachers in various districts. 2004 MAAEA revival: Chris Tang and Sophia Kim, Raymond.  Organized a couple of summits, had a meeting, presentation, panel discussionwith Dr. Carol John...

June 2014 Potluck (6/8/2014) Jobs With Justice 3353 Washington St, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 1:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Blog: http://maaea.blogspot.com Google Group: maaea@googlegroups.com Attendees: Richard Chang, Christopher Day, Katie Li, Tim Nagaoka, Go Sasaki, Jessica Tang Agenda: -Check-in -Debrief Event -MAAEA Goals for Next Year -Leadership/Membership Structure MAAEA May Event Debrief Pluses Deltas -Well organized event (well structured) -Attendance was very decent -MC, Videographer, Panel Facilitator -Many people hearing this for the first time, not just preaching to ourselves -Good idea to get graduate students (continue for next steps!) -Hope that children got something from it. -Heard good things through the grapevine about the event -Lorrayne stepped in for the event. Poised, great! -Heard questions from people that don’t normally have voice. -Recruit more from teacher programs (graduate programs) next year. -Don’t worry...