Passing Down a Legacy of Asian American Advocacy to My Son
A father and educator explains how the Asian American model minority myth perpetuates stereotypes and the work that lies ahead for his son and the education system to end it.
One Day Editorial Team
Author
You Will Encounter the Model Minority Myth, but It Is Your Legacy to Resist It
The perpetuation of the model minority myth in education harms Asian Americans and hinders efforts to build coalitions with other marginalized people.
Tony DelaRosa
The Impact of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Teaching AAPI Narratives
A father, educator, and Teach For America Alumnus, Tony DelaRosa, explains how the Asian American model minority myth serves as a tool for anti-Blackness and perpetuates stereotypes. Tony makes recommendations for an intersectional perspective, coalition-building, and culturally responsive teaching.
Faviola Leyva
Video Producer
Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz
Managing Director, Film + Video Projects
What’s It Like to Be a Middle School AAPI Activist?
Mina Fedor, a middle school student and activist, founded AAPI Youth Rising to amplify the voices of AAPI youth and fight anti-Asian racism and xenophobia.
Jessica Fregni
Writer-Editor, One Day
Student Activists Preserve Dark Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration Site
A student club called the Amache Preservation Society is helping to curate and teach the dark history of Japanese “internment” in the U.S.
Stephanie García
Writer-Editor
Students Labeled 'Asian' Are Not a Monolith. Why Are Schools Treating Them That Way?
States and K–12 schools still lump disparate groups of students together as “Asian” when collecting and disaggregating data. It’s a problem.
Sabrina Toppa
Dustin Chambers
Photographer
Love Story: From an Unrequited Love to an Unbreakable Bond
She liked him from afar for three years. Then he fell in love on date three.
Paula Ann Solis
Why Filipinx American Activism Deserves a Place in Our Textbooks
Four Filipino/a/x American Teach For America staff members share what FilAm activism means to them and why it needs and deserves to be taught in schools.
Bianca Nepales
Dan Santos
Monique Rae Valerio
Lessons From Disaggregating Data in Los Angeles Unified School District
Why should districts expand (by a lot) the ways students can identify who they are?
Joel Serin-Christ
'Teaching is My Form of Activism': Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we highlight how Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders are playing a key role in the fight for educational equity for all.
The TFA Editorial Team