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YURI Education Project

Freda Lin, CEO and Co-founder

Welcome! Sign up for the YURI newsletter to get updates on our work. Learn about the Asian American and Pacific Islander stories that have been left out of the history of our multiracial nation, and how we can thoughtfully bring them into learning spaces. Our professional learning and youth workshops for schools and organizations are grounded in culturally relevant, Ethnic Studies teaching practices that center student engagement and empowerment.

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Join me at the FREE workshops this next week!

Free workshops this week! Hi Reader, The thing I love about facilitating workshops is imagining how I would have taught AAPI history more effectively as I plan the workshop. Many more accessible resources have been developed since I left the classroom in 2014, and I'm especially excited about the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Foundations and Futures multimedia textbook! It's the first of its kind and includes such a wide scope from the academic field. I’ll be using this resource at the...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

Happy Back to School! Hi Reader, It's been a wonderful year of getting back to what I loved most as a classroom teacher: collaborating with teachers on curriculum and lesson planning, crafting lessons, and — to borrow a phrase from a favorite Social Studies Methods text — "being in there with the kids." Working with teachers and learning about their unique strategies was uplifting. It's always great to see teachers doing excellent work, especially in these difficult times. Whether I was...

2 months ago • 1 min read