Join us for a dynamic half-day professional development event designed to deepen your understanding of Chinese American history and provide powerful tools for classroom integration.

Begin the morning with a compelling lecture and image analysis by Professor William Gow, exploring the complex history of Chinese immigration and exclusion in the United States. Then, gain hands-on experience with the acclaimed "What Does It Mean to Be an American?" curriculum, as our friends at SPICE walk participants through the website and materials designed to bring these narratives to life.

Participants will also have time to collaborate, reflect, and share strategies for using these resources to foster critical thinking, empathy, and deeper historical understanding in K–12 classrooms.

🗓️ Date | ⏰ 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
🎓 Open to all K–12 educators | 💻 Virtual session
📚 Includes classroom-ready resources

Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your teaching with timely, engaging, and inclusive content.

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William Gow is a San Francisco-based community historian, documentary filmmaker, and educator. Currently, a UC Dissertation-Year Fellow in the Ethnic Studies Department at UC Berkeley, he formerly served as a public historian and board member for the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California in Los Angeles Chinatown. He is also a proud graduate of the Master's program in Asian American Studies at UCLA. This talk is drawn from his dissertation, "Performing Chinatown: Hollywood Cinema, Tourism, and the Making of a Los Angeles Community, 1882-1943." Dissertation research was funded in part through the Thayer Short-Term Research Fellowship at UCLA Special Collections.