On show at Museum of Chinese in America in New York: Foundations & Futures Teaching Asian American Histories for America's 250th

Learn about and explore Foundations and Futures through hands-on activities and presentations from special guests, including historian Mae Ngai, former labor organizer May Chen, and public historian Rachel Bernstein.

Tour MOCA’s core exhibition, With a Single Step: Stories in the Making of America and experience special exhibition Ed Young’s Bright Worlds: Gesture and Feeling in 60 Years of Picture Books for Children.

Develop strategies for integrating the curriculum and its materials into their classrooms alongside fellow educators. The program will spotlight three chapters from Foundations and Futures— “We Are Here Because You Were There: Race, Colonialism, and Migration,” ”Chinese Americans and the Making of Asian American History,” and “New York Chinatown’s Immigrant Garment Workers”—as a springboard for discussion.

Workshop is best for Social Studies/History educators of grades 6-12. Their registration will be prioritized.

Light breakfast and lunch included. Eligible participants will receive 5 CTLE hours. Send inquiries to education@mocanyc.org.

Thanks to support from the ILGWU 21st Century Heritage Fund, stipends of $75/educator will be provided upon full day’s attendance and participation.

Image credits: Central Pacific Railroad Worker c. 1862 – 1869. Photograph by Alfred A. Hart, courtesy of Stanford University. Women from Local 23-25 at the 1982 International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) garment workers’ rally in Columbus Park. Photograph by Paul Calhoun, Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) Collection.