Workshops about China, Japan and Korea for K-12 teachers

The East Asia Resource Center offers one-day teacher workshops in Seattle and the greater Puget Sound area. If  you teach in the Pacific Northwest and would like EARC to offer a workshop in your area, please contact the office to discuss the possibility.

EARC workshops are designed for K-12 teachers of history, social studies, geography, language arts (ELA), humanities, art, music, and world languages (Chinese, Japanese), as well as school librarians and curriculum specialists.

Upcoming workshops

• “Other Rivers: A Chinese Education” by Peter Hessler (2024)- NCTA Online Book Club
• Multigenerational Migration & Transformation in “All Our Ordinary Stories” by Teresa Wong – Online Book Club

Recent workshops

• On Translation: Process and Language Play with Takami Nieda
• Behind the Headlines – NCTA online series
• Write About Asia: 2023 Freeman Award Winners (PROGRAM FULL)
• Graphic Memoir: “The Boy from Clearwater” NCTA Online Book Club
• East Asian Visual Culture – NCTA Online Workshop Series
• Double Desire: Navigating Post-3/11 Relationships in Hamaguchi Ryūsuke’s “Asako I & II” (2018) – NCTA Online Film Club
• Father Knows Best: Sex, Love, and Kinship in Ang Lee’s “Eat Drink Man Woman” – NCTA Film Club
• Outer Space Policy in US-China Relations – NCTA Online Program
• “Zodiac” by Ai Weiwei (2024) – NCTA Online Book Club
• Global Asia Book Group – NCTA Online Program
• Japanese Baseball: When You Come to the Fork in the Road, Take It – NCTA online program
• “On Translation” with Takami Nieda (online program)
• Celebrating Identity: Teaching Empathy and Understanding using Cultural Celebrations of the New Year (online NCTA program)
• Online NCTA Book Club: The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays (edited by Tenzin Dickie)
• Twin Pandemics: Resilience and Healing of Asian American Communities (NCTA online program)
• Introduction to East Asian Visual Culture (NCTA online series)
• Behind the Headlines: Hong Kong (online program)
• Okinawa: Past, Present, and Future (online program)
• Behind the Headlines: China (online program)
• Behind the Headlines: Xinjiang (online program)
• Behind the Headlines: South and North Korea (online program)
• Behind the Headlines: Taiwan (online program)
• Online NCTA Program: East Asian Legacies of Colonialism and Imperialism
• Online Book Talk – Mind, Body & Soul in “Shadow Life” by Hiromi Goto
• Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance by Louisa Lim – NCTA Online Book Club
• Disaster and Resilience: Lessons from Minamata – NCTA Online program
• The Dalai Lama at 89: Looking Back and Reflecting Toward the Future – NCTA Online Program
• Collaboration and Subversion—Reconsidering Colonial Era Cinema in “Tuition”(1940), online program
• Three Brothers: Memories of My Family” by Yan Lianke Online NCTA Book Club
• Behind the Headlines online series: China
• Fall in-service day with the Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Kamishibai performance and optional workshop (2022)
• Behind the Headlines online series (2022)
• Sacred Spaces and Experiences (2022)
• 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei Online Book Club (2022)
• Mongolia Today: Modern Culture and Foreign Relations (2022)
• Who’s Who in Civil Rights and Community Activism in Asian American History (2022)
• *Almost* American: A Book Chat and Zine-Making Workshop (2022)
• Implications of the War in the Ukraine for China (2022)
• “Buddha in the Attic” by Julie Otsuka: Understanding Early 20th Century Japanese Migration and Racism Abroad (2022)
• Animating Catastrophe—Collective Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in the Anime Film “your name.” (2022)
• Celebrating Identity: Teaching Empathy and Understanding using Cultural Celebrations of the New Year (2022)
• NCTA Online Book Club: “Eat the Buddha”, Barbara Demick (2022)
• Book Club and Author Talk: Amy Stanley, “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World” (2021)
• Japan: Where We Are At (2021)
• North and South Korea: Where We Are At (2021)
• Hong Kong: Where We Are At (2021)
• Taiwan: Where We Are At (2021)
• China: Where We Are At (2021)
• Xinjiang: Where We Are At (2021)
• Locating Korean-ness in Postcolonial Japan: Zainichi Korean Identity in the documentary film “Our School” (2021)
• Artistic Expressions of East Asia: Histories and Legacies (2021)
• Asian American Activism: Voices, Representation, and Resistance (2021)
• The Chinese Communist Party – 100th Anniversary (NCTA 2021 online program)
• Identity After Upheaval: Connecting Asian Artists and Student Voices (2021)
• Creating Accordion Books in East Asian History and Now (2021)
• “The Shanghai Free Taxi” Online NCTA Book Club (2021)
• Teaching Empathy and Understanding: Asian Pacific Islander American Communities, Our Celebrations, and Our Stories (NCTA Online Program) (2021)
• Girls on the Line Book Club (NCTA Online program) (2021)
• Has China Won? (NCTA Online Book Club) (2020)
• Hong Kong: Where We Are At (NCTA Online Program) (2020)
• Japan: Where We Are At (NCTA Online Program) (2020)
• Taiwan: Where We Are At (NCTA Online Program) (2020)
• South and North Korea: Where We Are At (NCTA Online Program) (2020)
• China: Where We’re At (NCTA Online Program) (2020)
• Continuity and Change in Japan Post-3.11 (2020)
• Okinawa: Environment, History and Peace Movements (2020)
• Depopulation and Degrowth in Japan, post-1990 (2020)
• Teaching from Contemporary Asian Art: Student-Centered Engagement Strategies (2020)
• A Resilient Spirit: The stories, experiences, and legacy of Hawai’i’s WWII Detention Camp (2020)
• Online Book Club, “The Housekeeper and the Professor” (2020)
• Keeping Informed as Teachers: What We Need to Know About Xinjiang Today (2020)
• Disillusionment, Dystopia, and Dreams: Insights from Three Contemporary East Asian Films (2020)
• Day of The Western Sunrise: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Teaching (2020)
• The Aftermath of Japan’s Smallpox Epidemic – Online Program (2020)
• Internationalize Your History and Current Issues Curricula – Webinar series (2020)
• The 21st Century Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative – Online Program (2020)
• Online Book Club, “Convenience Store Woman” (2020)
• Study Sessions: The Chinese Exclusion Act (2020)
• Study Session: Japanese American WWII Incarceration (2020)
• Edo Avant Garde: How Japan Invented Modern Art – Workshop at SAM (2020)
• Catching Your Students with Pokemon: Japanese Popular Culture in the Classroom using NCTA Curriculum (2019)
• The Japanese Garden (2019)
• East Asia in the Classroom, Freeman Awards Winners (2019)
• Diversity and Connections: Teaching a Global Perspective on Japan and Montana (2019)
• China 101 Teacher Workshop (2018)