Moments & Movements

Betina Hsieh (she/her) is the Boeing Endowed Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Washington (Seattle). Dr. Hsieh, a proud second generation Asian American MotherScholar and former urban middle school teacher, has published widely in peer reviewed journals and presented over 40 research papers on issues related to teaching, teacher education, teacher professional identity, teachers of color, and Asian American educators. Recent peer-reviewed publications include articles in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education; English Teaching: Practice and Critique; Literacy Research and Instruction; Journal of Diversity in Higher Education; the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy; the Peabody Journal of Education; and the Journal of Teacher Education. Dr. Hsieh's work focuses on how who people are shapes what they do (and the choices they make) as educators. She believes in the importance of educational research that is accessible to teacher education practitioners, K-12 educators, community members and families in addition to impacting the field itself. To that end, she has published in K-12 focused journals and magazines like Educational Leadership; the English Journal; and Voices from the Middle, as well as being cited in the Atlantic. Additionally, she has given a TEDx talk, Learning from One Another: Lessons in (Educational) Excellence and appeared as a guest on multiple educational podcasts including the Black Gaze podcast and All of the Above. Her previous book, The Racialized Experiences of Asian American Teachers, co-authored with Dr. Jung Kim, is the first comprehensive research monograph focused on the experiences of Asian American teachers using the tenets of Asian Critical Race Theory.Roland Sintos Coloma is a Professor of Teacher Education at Wayne State University in Detroit. His research examines the cultural politics of difference in education with a focus on race, class, gender, and sexuality from historical, intersectional, and transnational frameworks. His publication record consists of 4 books and over 40 articles and book chapters in prominent journals and academic presses. He has garnered over $3 million of external funding from federal, education, and philanthropic agencies to support youth, career-pipeline, and community development initiatives. Roland was elected president of the American Educational Studies Association, chosen as editor of the Educational Studies journal, and appointed by the Governor as member of the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission. He has also received two recognitions from the American Educational Research Association with the Distinguished Scholar Award (2017) from the Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans SIG and Article of the Year Award (2015) from the Queer Studies SIG. Born in the Philippines and raised in California, Roland was a high school English teacher, minority student affairs professional, and community organizer prior to becoming an academic.

• Acknowledgments Foreword – Kevin K. Kumashiro Introduction: Moments and Movements: An Invitation to Build With Us Betina Hsieh and Roland Sintos Coloma Part One: The Moment We Begin Chapter 1: Asian American History 101: What Every Person Needs to Know Richard Mui Chapter 2: "I think that we're definitely doing something wrong": Learning From Asian American Youth About Identity, Advocacy, and Educational Change Noreen Naseem Rodríguez, Esther June Kim, and Sohyun An Chapter 3: He Moʻolelo No Kupa: Cultivating Culturally Sustaining and Revitalizing Pedagogy Through Kanaka ʻŌiwi Epistemology 'Alohilani Okamura and Kirsten Mawyer Chapter 4: Finding and Building Community: Stop Waiting for Someone Else Jung Kim Response to Part 1 – The Moment We Begin Theodore Chao Part Two: Building an Inclusive Movement Chapter 5: A Deliberate Choice: Multiple Consciousness and K-12 Asian American Studies Praxis Edward R. Curammeng, Giselle Cunanan, and Cheralen A. Valdez Chapter 6: Affirming and Honoring the Voices of South Asian Americans in the K-12 Classroom Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath Chapter 7: What I've Learned Creating and Teaching a High School Middle Eastern Studies Elective for the Last 16 Years Monica Eraqi Chapter 8: Learning With and From Student Community Cultural Wealth Norman Sales Response to Part 2 – Building an Inclusive Movement: Curricular Re-Memberings Bic Ngo Part Three: Extending the Movement Chapter 9: Becoming Justice-Oriented Educational Leaders: Counternarratives and Praxis From Boggs, Kochiyama, and Itliong Paul Koh Chapter 10: Mapping Consequential Geographies: Examining the Model Minority Racial Project in Teacher Education Lawrence Teng, Cathery Yeh, and William Bae Chapter 11: "Activism can be the journey rather than the arrival": Organizing for Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander History in Michigan Roland Sintos Coloma Chapter 12: The Fight for Asian American Studies in a "Red State": Voices From Texas Indira Moparthi, Annie Nguyen, and Mohit Mehta Response to Part 3 – At the Wonton-making Table: On Belonging and Resistance Edwin Mayorga Part Four: Envisioning New Worlds Chapter 13: Am I a Model Minority?: Critical Reflections on Asian American Pasts and Futures Wayne Au Chapter 14: Homeplace: Finding a Sense of Self Among Shattered Realities Sawsan Jaber Chapter 15: River of Collective Struggle: Intergenerational Fugitivity One Heartbeat Collective Response to Part 4 – Centering RADical Asian American Epistemologies to Envision New Worlds Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales