Thanks to an email from a colleague, on Tuesday night, I headed to the Sacramento Library to attend Behind Barbed Wire, a powerful presentation from the Sacramento Bee’s Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Paul Kitagaki. Political cartoonist Jack Ohman, also a SacBee Pulitzer Prize winner, joined Paul on the stage and guided the discussion and presentation. Like […]
Social Justice
Heading to Manzanar
I’m packing my overnight bag for a weekend excursion to the Owens Valley, to visit Manzanar, a former WWII internment camp for citizens of Japanese heritage. I’ll be traveling with California State University, Sacramento, professor Wayne Mayeda, a group of former internees, students from CSUS, and a team of teachers from my district. Our journey […]
Taking a Chance on Words: Why are the Asian-American kids silent in class?
“While teachers are concerned about this lack of participation in classroom talk, they are also often relatively accepting of these quiet students who don’t pose a discipline problem, who turn in homework on time, and in general, get passing grades.“ I am pulling a few quotes from Carol Tateishi‘s article Taking a Chance with Words, […]