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United Educators of San Francisco has started their endorsement process for this year’s school board campaign. On Saturday, March 10th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. candidates will be interviewed by their COPE members. The recommendations from the March 10th UESF/COPE meeting will be presented to the UESF Executive Board meeting on April 4, 2018. That body will consider those recommendations and make the final UESF endorsements for school board to the Executive Board.
They will provide childcare, breakfast, and lunch and there will be a raffle at the end of the COPE meeting. Also, parking is available in the yard. Entrance is on the Bartlett Street side. Your participation is crucial! If you have any questions, please call Anabel Ibáñez at 415-956-8373 ext. 129 or email at aibanez@uesf.org. UESF/COPE Recommendation Meeting Saturday, March 10th from 9:30 AM to 4 PM Buena Vista Horace Mann School 3351 23rd Street. They will be interviewing the following candidates: Jose (JB) Tengco, Leah Pimentel, Josephine Zhao, Michelle Parker, Emily Murase, Monica Chinchilla, Mia Satya, Alida (Lee) Fisher, Alison Collins, Gabriela Lopez, & Faauuga Moliga
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 TACT is celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2019! Interested in helping plan a special and memorable event?
Please email Christie Kitsuda here: kitsudaC1 (at) sfusd.edu While the news around undocumented immigrants have focused on people from Latin America, it is also a concern within the Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) community. Of the 11.5 million estimated undocumented people, over 10% are of APIA descent. Here are the 2012 estimates according to statistics compiled from the Department of Homeland Security by ASPIRE, a youth group of the Asian Law Caucus:
China 280,000 Philippines 270,000 India 240,000 Korea 230,000 Vietnam 170,000 Other 100,000 Of those approximately 1.3 million undocumented APIA, some are children in our schools who have no idea that their parents had overstayed their visas. Their fears are the same as others affected by the impending changes in Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program according to Hong Mei Pang of Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA), a speaker at our recent Angel Island event on February 3. The fear of being discovered has been a part of our history in America. After the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, we had entered or re-entered the country with false paper documents despite having contributed legitimately to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad and to the growth of California agriculture as farmworkers and levee builders. From 1910-1940 Chinese had to be incarcerated for weeks, sometimes months, and interrogated to establish their identity on Angel Island. Detainees carved angry poems on its wooden walls which have been translated and preserved today. TACT has created some PowerPoints on Angel Island for elementary and secondary schools as well as a recommended reading list. Primary Grades
Because the Angel Island books are for upper elementary grades, we are listing some immigration books for the primary grades. Choi, Yangsook. The Name Jar. 2008. A Korean immigrant girl has to decide on a name in her new classroom. Grades PreK-1 O’Brien, Anne Sibley. I'm New Here. 2015. Immigrants from Guatemala, Korea, and Somalia find their way in a kindergarten classroom. A companion book is Someone New from the point of view of their classmates who are not immigrants. Grades PreK-1 Recorvits, Helen and Gabi Swiatkowska. My Name is Yoon. 2003. A Korean girl struggles with writing her name in English. Grades PreK-2 Ringgold, Faith. We Came to America. 2016. The author illustrated her poem about the different ways people came to this country. Grades K-2, but also good for upper grades. Yang, Belle. Hannah is My Name. 2004. A Taiwanese immigrant girl and her family have fears about working without a green card. Grades K-2 <www.youtube.cm/watch?v=5rz5whByOts> Elementary school students will enjoy this short Youtube clip of Tyrus Wong’s life, his ordeal on Angel Island, and his joy in making kites. Collier, Irene Dea. “Why Did the Chinese Leave China?” from Chinese Americans, Past and Present. 1977. Grades 2-4 Upper Elementary Grades Cobblestone Angel Island Edition. February 2016. A true account of the Louie family’s experience on Angel Island. https://shop.cricketmedia.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=February+2016 Grades 4-6 Currier, Katrina Saltonstall and Baghor Utomo. Kai’s Journey to Gold Mountain: An Angel Island Story. 2005. A boy takes a sea journey to join his father in the U.S. Grades 3-5 Ding, Loni. Island of Secret Memories. 1988. A boy remembers his grandfather’s story about his imprisonment on Angel Island and touches upon feelings of being excluded. 20 min. Grades 3-5 James, Helen Foster and Virginia Shin-Mui Loh. Paper Son: Lee’s Journey to America. Illustrated by Wilson Ong. 2013. A boy uses an assumed identity to enter the U.S. Grades 3-5 Lee, Milly and Yangsook Choi. Landed. 2006. The author based the story on her family’s ordeal upon entry. Grades 3-5 TACT Angel Island Power Point. Elementary Version is available on the flash drive and on Google: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p5b7wK3xzdzFaMy1ktVoGAhrQ2xbcS1x Wong, Don. “No. 127, San Francisco, Okay” from Chinese Americans, Past and Present. 1977. Grades 4-5 Middle School Wong, Li Keng. Good Fortune: My Journey to Gold Mountain. 2006. A teacher’s memoirs of her experiences in China, Angel Island, and the U.S. in the 1930s. Chapters from her book can be found at <http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/asian-american/angel_island/> Yep, Laurence, and Kathleen S. Yep. The Dragon’s Child: A Story of Angel Island. HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. The authors fictionalized their family’s Angel Island interrogation. Non fiction Freedman, Russell. Angel Island: Gateway to Gold Mountain. 2013. TACT Angel Island: Middle and Senior High School Version: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p5b7wK3xzdzFaMy1ktVoGAhrQ2xbcS1x Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation < https://aiisf.org/education/resources/curriculum-guide> Interviews and resources about the many groups that passed through Angel Island. High School Goh, Teow Lim. Islanders. Conundrum Press, 2016. Imagined poems of women on Angel Island. Lai, Him Mark, and Genny Lim, Judy Yung. Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940. Angel Island poems are presented in a bilingual format Lee, Erika, and Judy Yung. Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America. This scholarly book also includes other immigrant groups who passed through Angel Island. Lowe, Felicia. Carved in Sllence. Re-enactment, recitation of poems, interviews. 45 minutes. Wong, Tyrus and Michael Labrie. Water to Paper, Paint to Sky: The Art of Tyrus Wong. 2013. This book shows the art work and life of an artist who was once detained at Angel Island. American Masters: Tyrus. Tyrus Wong is featured in this excellent film by Pamela Tom. It has been shown on the PBS series. <http://sfbay.aspireforjustice.org/about-us-2/our-people > Asian American youth are also affected by DACA. This website has clips of their personal stories. Recommended K-12 Readings and Resources: The Association of Chinese Teachers (TACT) <tactsf.org> On Google https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1p5b7wK3xzdzFaMy1ktVoGAhrQ2xbcS1x  Sokita Celebrates the New Year - A Cambodian American Holiday 2004
by Barbara Lau & Kris Nesbitt with Cedric N. Chatterley, Photographer. Cambodian New Year is in mid-April. This book tells of some traditions of the celebration. |
