Global Asia(s) Summer Book Club

The East Asia Resource Center invites middle and high school educators to join the Global Asia(s) Summer Book Club from June to August 2026. Don’t miss this opportunity to partake in an online professional development reading series built around contemporary novels that trace the movement of people, ideas, and stories across place and time. Designed for educators across disciplines, the program helps participants build content knowledge, engage in collaborative discussion, and create a classroom-ready curriculum resource.

Rooted in the Global Asia(s) framework, this program approaches Asia transnationally and transculturally. Rather than treating Asia as a fixed place, Global Asia(s) asks how histories, identities, and narrative traditions move across borders and reshape our understanding of place, connection, migration, and history.

• • Starts:
  • June 24, 2026
• • Ends:
  • August 12, 2026
• • Learning Format:
  • Online
• • Type of Course:
  • Book & Film Groups
• • Offered to:
  • All States
• • Registration and Info:

  • Participants choose two or three books from the summer schedule and complete each book as part of a three-week cycle. During each cycle, teachers read the novel and a short framing packet, post reflections and responses to peers asynchronously on Padlet, and participate in a live two-hour Zoom seminar. At the end of the program, participants complete a capstone curriculum project. Total program credit is 20 PD hours, with 8 hours per book and a 4-hour capstone.

    For any questions, please email earc@uw.edu.