Resources

Helpful Resources

Recommended Children's Literature

I'm often asked for recommendations for children's literature. Each time this happens, I ask for specificity - what do you want to teach/focus on and who do you teach? What you teach happens in a particular context, so knowing who you're teaching and how you teach is just as important for me to understand before I can make any recommendations. 

Grad Student & Faculty Resources

So many aspects of life as a faculty member are not addressed in graduate school. As someone who has always subscribed to the notion that "sharing is caring" and who strives to "be who you needed when you were younger," this page is dedicated to resources that support graduate students and early career faculty in understanding the hidden curriculum of academia. Most of this advice is not mine, I've just curated a collection of resources and advice that I've found helpful.

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Published Articles and Media

“Teaching Asian American Histories In and Beyond May.” AACTE Blog. (May 2024)

Reflections from Our CLA Early Career Award Recipients. Children’s Literature Assembly of NCTE. (May 2024)

Equity and Social Justice Series. Routledge. (April 2024)

Teaching Asian American history to kids. Stateside. Michigan Public Radio. (January 2024)

How to incorporate Asian American culture into elementary classroomsMichigan State University College of Education (November 2023)

How to thwart an anti-equity agenda: Advice for teachers, administrators, and families. Education Week (April 2023)

“The case for anti-oppressive social studies in elementary school.” Harvard EdCast (November 2022)

As schools become political battlegrounds, one educator sees room for hope.CU Boulder Today (August 2022)

Anti-Asian American violence is still raging. AAPI teachers are trying to stop it in USA TODAY (March 2022)

Reenvisioning how U.S. textbooks tell South Asian stories in The Juggernaut (May 2021)

Amid a wave of violence against Asian-Americans, some push for more of their history in classrooms in South China Morning Post (May 2021)

A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms in Time Magazine (March 2021)

A Critical Discussion of Teaching Resources on TpT, Pinterest, Instagram and More (March 2021)

Post on Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's Learning Together blog (July/August 2019)

HuffPost article by Frank Wu

Iowa State New Faculty Spotlight

Ozy Educator Award feature

Teachers Who Inspired Ozy Award-Winning Teachers

Latest News

Recent News & Updates

Book tour dates coming soon! This spring/summer, I'll be presenting at:

  • March 22-23: Michigan State University's Asian Pacific American Symposium (East Lansing, MI)
  • April 6: CSU Sacramento's Multicultural Education conference (virtual panel)
  • April: American Educational Research Association conference (Philadelphia, PA - multiple presentations)
  • April 26: Association for Asian American Studies conference (Seattle, WA)
  • May 16-18: Critical Inquiry in Social Studies conference (Denton, TX)
  • May 30-31: Transformational Equity Experience (Centennial, CO)
  • June: Social Studies Education Consortium conference (Morocco)

My most recent webinar, Teaching Asian American Narratives through Children's Literature sponsored by the 1990 Institute, can be viewed here.