What This Group is About

The education committee was created to address inequality issues within communities of color as well as provide resources/create for adult and elderly learners. This committee meets once a month at the Chicago’s Chinatown library.

Project Teams

Fourth Industrial Revolution Education (F.I.R.E.)

Workforce development subteam - This project team focuses on workforce development among adults who are transitioning out of the workforce due to automation and tries to provide resources and training for blue collar workers.

Children Education with Thinking and Technology (CETT) subteam - This project team focuses on teaching children how to develop critical thinking skills and problem solving skills so that they will be able to develop skills that will help them adapt to the upcoming changes in the job market

Community Language Class (CLC)

We are creating a summer community language class so that people within the community can connect with English and Cantonese.
There will be space created for English learners as well as Cantonese learners. We hope to also address alienation within the POC community for Chinese immigrants by teaching other POC’s Cantonese so that they could build solidarity with each other and remove the language barrier.

Building Engaged Parents ( BEP)

Our goals for this team is to build better relationships with local neighborhood high schools with students and parents.
In addition to providing language access for parents and students who do not speak English.

Recent Accomplishments

We have launched our first community language class for the summer of 2020 that focuses on connecting groups of color through learning Cantonese.