A conversation between five NYC educators

Recommendations from five NYC educators

I’m often the outsider-insider and sometimes a bridge.

“I think if we can hear from each other that being a model minority is not the only way to have value, and that being the good child is not the only way to be a good person, what might that unlock?”

I turned around to check whether the llama was still there. There he was, as fluffy and clueless as before, lashes waving as he sat on a tattered red mat thrown on the aisle.

Interrogating the Asian American disconnect
in the debate over NYC’s specialized high schools

How art teacher Cecile Chong has connected generations, continents and patterns of migration in her work

A river of dark, red fluids frothed and pooled over drains. Men in green T-shirts scrubbed the floor with brooms as wave after wave of water washed away the sacrificial blood.