Pin@y Educational Partnerships
Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP), a “barangay” that focuses on providing schools with Ethnic Studies courses and curriculum, developing radical educators, and creating resources for Filipina/x/o communities and similarly marginalized people. PEP implements a liberatory decolonizing curriculum and pedagogy,at all grade levels including primary, middle, secondary, post-secondary, and graduate students. As volunteer teachers of the program, graduate and undergraduate students, from San Francisco State University and surrounding universities who are pursuing careers in education or community service, receive a unique opportunity to teach critical Filipina/x/o American studies. They gain skills in the practice of critical pedagogy, curriculum development, lesson planning, and teaching.
Community Responsive Education
Community Responsive Education (CRE) was founded by two San Francisco State University professors, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales and Jeff Duncan-Andrade, and Glenda Macatangay, a trained social worker with a twenty-year history in community organizing. With over forty years of combined service and research, CRE offers strategic research services and training on participatory action research and professional and curriculum development services for community organizations and educational institutions. The goal is to begin or sustain their journeys of becoming community responsive. CRE is a collective of practitioners, educators, and researchers who have been working with organizations, service providers, students/youth, families, teachers, schools, school districts, colleges, and universities to build humanizing and nurturing educational cultures. We provide support to develop community responsive and Ethnic Studies curriculum. We also provide teacher and leadership training opportunities. Our main research focus is the development of a community responsive wellness framework to be used in schools across the nation.
Pinayista
Pinayista is a community of pinays with a mission to build sisterhood in the hustle. The community is open to all self-identified pinays, including trans and gender nonconforming pinxys. Our programs currently focus on serving pinays in North America with hopes to expand in the future.
‘Pinayista’, is who embodies Pinayism in their life as an agent of change. The mission of Pinayista is to curate spaces where self-identified Pinays can come together to share their stories, cultivate and nurture trusting relationships, collaborate, and build sisterhood in the hustle. Rooted in Pinayism, we support Pinays as agents of change in their own lives, where they can pursue their passions, find their power, and connect with community.
Pinayism Workshops
I’ve been providing Pinayism workshops and panels for over 25 years. Much of them have been collaboration with the original Pinay panel–Dawn Mabalon, Emily Lawsin, Joan May Cordova, and Darlene Rodriguez. I’ve also collaborative with Jocyl Sacramento on many workshops for college and high school students across the nation. The focus of these workshops is center the Pinay experience and also to develop ways to address and heal from the global, local, and personal issues/problems that we are confronted with. Through the use of multi-media and multiple literacies including performance pedagogy and poetry, we explore the tranformative possibilities of Pinayism.
Tatlong Bagsak for Black Lives
“Tatlong Bagsak for Black Lives: Combating Anti-Blackness in the Filipina/x/o Community” is a symposium presented by Pin@y Educational Partnerships, Balay Kollective, Pinayista, Asian Solidarity Collective, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, and Asian American & Pacific Islander Student Services. The goal of this event is to provide a space to discuss the following questions:
ISANG BAGSAK: How is Filipina/x/o freedom tied to Black Liberation?
DALAWANG BAGSAK: How can Filipinas/xes/os be in solidarity for Black Lives?
TATLONG BAGSAK: How can our Filipina/x/o community continue to spread this critical dialogue?
The symposium aims to tackle these questions through two panels with leading thinkers and activists who will provide us with research, experiences, stories, and a language to use when discussing anti-Blackness. The last part of the symposium is devoted to providing an opportunity training and support to leaders, educators, and those who want to bring this dialogue back to their organizations, communities, and families. This will be in an interactive workshop format guided by activists and teachers in the Filipina/x/o community. There will be a community lesson plan, resources, and strategies that will be provided at the workshop. We hope that by spreading this dialogue, we can contribute to combating anti-Blackness in our community.
Ethnic Studies Pedagogy and Curriculum Development
Ethnic Studies Pedagogy
Purpose: The purpose of Ethnic Studies is to ELIMINATE RACISM and other forms of oppression. Ethnic Studies centralizes Native Peoples and Communities of Color–within a critical discussion about power, systems, identity formation, and self-reflection.
Context: It is essential for Ethnic Studies to be RESPONSIVE TO STUDENTS and their families and communities.
Content: It is essential that Ethnic Studies centralizes the histories, cultures, and intellectual traditions of NATIVE PEOPLES and COMMUNITIES OF COLOR in the U.S. and that their stories are told in the first person. The content also fosters the development of all students’ identities, critical consciousness, and self-determination. Ethnic Studies also provides transformative opportunities for the growth of community, collectivity, and connection both inside and outside of the classroom.
Method: Ethnic Studies courses are INTERDISCIPLINARY and include multiple methods, for ex.: Media Literacy, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Participatory Action Research, Socratic Seminar, Oral Histories, Civic and Community Engagement and Organizing, Critical Leadership Development, Critical Performance Pedagogy, Praxis Story Plot Development, and Personal Narrative/Auto-Ethnography.
Journey for Justice
While she was writing the book, Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong, Dr. Dawn Mabalon asked her best friend and colleague, Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, to create an accompanying curriculum. Drawing from the PEP network, Allyson built a team of three former PEP teachers–Daisy Lopez, Aileen Pagtakhan, and Aldrich Sabac–who now have their own elementary, middle, and high school classrooms at public schools with significant populations of Filipina/o/x/American students. This curriculum provides detailed lesson plans and resources to help teach about the book and beyond.
Filipino Americans and the Farm Labor Movement
Filipino Americans comprise the largest Asian population within California and the third largest Asian population within the United States. In California, all students learn about Cesar Chavez and the farm labor movement in their study of state and US history. What is not widely known is the important contributions of Filipino Americans to this movement. The California Legislature passed AB 123 in 2013 to place a much greater emphasis on Filipino American contributions to the farm labor movement.
Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies
Edited by Kevin Nadal, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, and EJR David
This will be the first encyclopedia focused on Filipina/x/o American Studies. There will be about 350 entries in a two-volume series. More information to come soon.