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

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

of public school educators are of Asian descent. As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. While 21% of teachers in Hawai’i are Japanese, only 10% have Native Hawaiian ancestry.

Ancestry

Ancestry Heritage History Cultures

Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. We talked with folks who strongly identify with their heritage ancestry, language and culture and others who navigate the complex nuances of diasporic reality.

Ancestry

Ancestry K-12 Education Geography

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

Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

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