February Featured Grant: Taiwan Travels
At our February Board meeting the BEF heard from BHS English teacher Emma Siver about her recent trip to Taiwan. Emma, who is also an educator in the African American & Latinx Scholars program at BHS, received a grant to travel to Taiwan with her colleague Sydney Hou, to learn about Taiwanese history and culture from someone who grew up there and still visits family there every summer. Emma came away with her trip with new understanding of this part of the world, which in turn is informing her work with students as they read texts by Asian authors, and as they explore the immigrant experience more broadly. The opportunity to see a new part of the world and to deepen her connections to colleagues is part of what helps younger educators of color like Emma see a future in education, specificially in Brookline, so it is particularly special for the BEF to have been part of this experience.