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To Create Safer Spaces for Students, Teachers of Color Must Reckon With Our Settler Identity

ED Surge

While 21% of teachers in Hawai’i are Japanese, only 10% have Native Hawaiian ancestry. The Settler Identity There are many teachers of color that can trace their arrivals - whether voluntarily or forced - back to lands occupied by the United States government. This is where the work must begin for my fellow settler teachers of color.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. The next school year, she was asked to teach not only the regular-level geography course but also AP Human Geography and World History.