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Diverse Perspectives – School Integration

[Lesson Plan]This is an excerpt from: An. (2020). First Graders’ Inquiry into Multicolored Stories of School (De)Segregation.Social Studies and the Young Learner, […]

Analysis of Southeast Asian Refugee Children’s Literature

[Scholarly Article]An, Sohyun. “Critical Juxtaposing of War and Migration: A Content Analysis of Southeast Asian Refugee Children’s Literature.”The Social Studies 113:5 (2022), […]

Why Should We Teach About Human Rights?

[Scholarly Article] Barton, Keith C. “What Should We Teach About Human Rights?: Implications of International Research.”Social Education 83:4 (2019). p. 212-216 Download […]

Developing Cultural Citizenship

[Scholarly Article]Rodriguez, Noreem Naseem. “From Margins to Center: Developing Cultural Citizenship Education Through the Teaching of Asian American History.” Theory and Research in […]

History of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes

[Scholarly Article]An, Sohyun. “Disrupting Anti-Asian Violence During Epidemics: A C3 Inquiry Lesson.” Social Education 86:2 (2022) p. 122-128 Download PDF

World War II in the Philippines

[Scholarly Article]An, Sohyun. “Teaching Difficult Knowledge of World War II in the Philippines with Children’s Literature and Inquiry.”Social Studies and the Young […]

Teaching about the Vietnam War: Centering Southeast Asian Refugee Voices

[Scholarly Article]An, Sohyun. “Teaching About the Vietnam War: Centering Southeast Asian Refugee Voices Through Children’s Literature.”Social Studies and the Young Learner 34:4 […]

Teaching Difficult Knowledge of the Korean War

[Scholarly Article]An, Sohyun. “Teaching Difficult Knowledge of the Korean War through International Children’s Literature.”Social Studies and the Young Learner 33:3 (2021) p. […]

Learning Racial Literacy While Navigating White Social Studies

[Scholarly Article]An, Sohyun. “Learning Racial Literacy While Navigating White Social Studies.”The Social Studies 111:4 (2020) p. 174-181 Download PDF
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Asif Jessani

Board Member

Asif Jessani is a professional volunteer. He currently serves as a board member for Artworks Gwinnett, Gwinnett County Parks Foundation, and Gwinnett County Public Library Foundation. He also serves as an advisory board member for the United Way of Greater Atlanta – Gwinnett and Atlanta Speech School. With a passion for early childhood education, he is also involved with Gwinnett County’s early learning initiative, Building Babies’ Brains. As part of the Ismaili Muslim Community, he has been a volunteer preschool teacher for the past 24 years.

Asif is also actively involved with the communications and outreach team for the Ismaili Muslim Community and previously led the marketing and media team for the United States Ismaili Games. When he isn’t volunteering, Asif takes on the responsibility of partner at CCS: Marketing & Technology, which provides chief marketing and technology officer services and branded items for mission-driven organizations.