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For multilinguals (MLs) to be successful in schools, all teachers must rally together. Through teacher collaboration, content/homeroom teachers can work with English development teachers to make content comprehensible while fostering academic language skills. In this workshop, Tan will share the need for teacher collaboration and one approach to use while co-planning that shifts instruction for MLs.

“Have you eaten yet?” If you’ve ever stepped into a Filipino household, you’ve probably heard this caring question. Get ready for an exciting workshop that fuses the Filipino concept of “kapwa” (all about shared humanity, interconnectedness, and empathy) with food and culture in today’s classroom. Dive in to discover how educators can play a vital role in crafting compassionate K-12 communities, all while embarking on a flavorful journey through culinary traditions.

This workshop is for K-12 teachers who would like to develop lesson plans, creative activities, and community partnerships with Pacific Islanders in California, nationally, and globally. The topics of discussion include but are not limited to climate change, militarization, popular culture, and sacred spaces in Oceania and the diaspora.

This session will feature the authors of two recently published books – Asian American is Not a Color: Conversations about Race, Affirmative Action, and Family by OiYan Poon and Teaching Asian America in Elementary Classrooms by Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Sohyun An, and Esther June Kim. Attendees will consider how parents/caretakers and teachers can and should work together to support children in their processes of making meaning of their daily observations and questions about race, racism, and what it means to be Asian American. In her book, Dr. Poon—a nationally recognized race scholar—narrates her struggles as a mom to help her daughter answer her wonderings about the social world. Nationally recognized teacher educators Drs. Rodríguez, An, and Kim, in their book, offer insights on teaching Asian American Studies in elementary schools. Together in this session, they highlight the need for teachers and caretakers to work together in providing seamless learning experiences for children between homes, communities, and schools. They will also underscore the differences between Asian American Studies content knowledge and expertise on curriculum and pedagogy, and how the two areas of knowledge can come together to transform educational experiences.

Stacey Lee Gobir, Director of Pepperdine University’s Resilience-Informed Skills Education (RISE) Program, will discuss best practices of the RISE Coaching offering, an experience where students identify and achieve their resilience-related goals with the support of a coach.

Participants can expect to learn and practice coaching skills such as motivational interviewing, sincere validation and active listening, all tangible tools which can be used to better care for communities and promote wellbeing, inclusion, and belonging.

This workshops aims to expand the Filipino cultural concept of “Isang Bagsak” into an educational framework for researchers and education practitioners that ensures that Asian American narratives, histories, and epistemologies are included in social justice education spaces. Exploring Isang Bagsak as an education framework not only fights for Asian American inclusion in social justice spaces, but it validates Filipino labor and cultural concepts as accessible and transferable educational tools. The objectives this workshop aims to address are the following: 1) how can we theorize ways to include Asian Americans in social justice teaching and learning spaces, 2) how can social justice scholarship be informed by Asian Americans, and 3) how can Asian Americans concretize our cultural symbols into tools?

Please join the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC) and YURI Education Project (YURI) in this informative workshop about their current co-creation project! As Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities across the country continue to grow, it is increasingly important that educators and their students engage in a curriculum that is reflective of these changes. APAC and YURI’s framework for this project centers community voice and decision-making. To fully reflect and impact the community, we believe that community members must participate in every phase of this work.

APAC’s National Education Program for Co-Creation inspires and supports educators in connecting with their local AANHPI communities and share their stories and lived experiences Throughout 2023 and 2024, APAC worked alongside YURI to connect and convene (in person and virtually) a cohort of K-12 classroom educators and AANHPI-led organizations from six localities: Orange County, California; Chicago, San Antonio, Houston, and Austin, Texas; and Seattle, Washington. APAC and YURI engage with and draw upon the expertise of these local educators and community organizations to co-create new educational resources focusing on local AANHPI histories for K-12 educators and students. These wide-ranging, creative resources—from cookbooks and zines to posters and maps—will introduce and make accessible the rich, diverse, and ongoing histories of AANHPI peoples and communities across the United States.

This workshop will include how APAC and YURI came to and define a co-creation model, highlight regional partners and organizations, preview educational resources developed, and how other educators and organizations may begin to think of co-creation within their own pedagogical practices.

Together, will aim to: deconstruct the “Asian Pacific Islander” monolith; process how the Myth perpetuates our communities and the systems we dwell in; and brainstorm how we can incorporate racial justice and resistance into the framework of how we interact and create spaces with and for API folks.

This workshop will provide educators with a free, standards-aligned curriculum with lesson plans that teachers can incorporate into their social studies, ethnic studies or other curriculum. Foundations and Futures features diverse histories of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the US and diasporas for high school and early college students.

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Research is a valuable tool for inquiry, data analysis, and driving positive change in communities. With the aim to demystify the research process within social sciences, this workshop invites high school educators to incorporate research into their pedagogy and classroom tool kit. This workshop is designed to collectively think about strategies that help students cultivate both educational preparedness and emotional well-being by connecting research with community work. It expands on the possibilities of social justice by prompting students to locate existing gaps in knowledge and ethically conduct research for the betterment of the community.

Led by Fuko Kiyama and Trinh Dang, instructors of a 10-week college-level research workshop series for the Asian American Youth Leaders Program and their high school students, educators will gain insights from their experiences in conducting systematic literature reviews on topics related to the Asian American community. This workshop provides a platform for collaborative discussions on the importance of diversity and accurate representation, supplemented by firsthand accounts from high school students. Exploring both challenges and successes in college-level research, the workshop aims to equip educators with practical strategies for integrating research into the high school curriculum. Through this integration, educators can effectively address issues impacting the communities they serve, fostering care and positive change.

Attendees will be presented with a choice board of lessons for identity and belonging. The feature choice will be “Virtual Walking Tour” of places chosen from the book “A People’s Guide to Orange County”. Current high school students (and their teacher) will be available to discuss their process and reflection on these projects. Additionally, students will be available for Q&A regarding projects that examine identity and belonging.

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Dear Asian Youth and CVHS Empowerment Initiative are youth activist groups that strive to promote intersectional activism, both in and outside of the classroom. Our goal is to empower student voices by raising cultural awareness and diversity.

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