Author: teachaapi-production
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Diving Deeper: Native Hawaiians and Polynesians
Welcome to our Diving Deeper series! At TeachAAPI, we believe that going deeper in the understanding of peoples, histories and experiences is key to building empathy in children and a more informed view of the diversity within the AAPI community for everyone. The AAPI community is such a vastly complex, diverse and beautiful quilt of…
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Why Representation Matters
By Serena Ling Minikes My son and I had just finished the ever-addictive book series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, both of us plowing through the series with the intensity of actually saving the world with Jackson himself. Each time we finish a particularly engaging book, it’s like stepping off a plane after an amazing…
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Welcome to our community!
By Renee Yang and Ann Kono Pain. Fear. Frustration. These last 19 months have in some ways felt like years. The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced a whole new set of variables for parents and their children – remote learning, disrupted schedules, social isolation and more. As if worrying about this wasn’t enough, the overwhelming increase…