The Community Education Center offers day-long Education Workshops to youth, educators and community leaders who are interested in integrating the subject of immigration into their communities, professional and educational spheres.
Each workshop features an immigration attorney who discusses the historical and contemporary aspects of immigration in the United States, an immigration activist/ author, educational experts and other expert lecturers. Workshops have been held in Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami and San Francisco.
View the Manual [1] from the 2009 Workshop in New York City.
Past Workshops
- In 2008, dozens of Washington, D.C. area educators had a unique opportunity to work with experts on immigration law and African migration at the American Immigration Law Foundation's (AILF's) fifth annual Teachers' Symposium on Saturday, February 9. The event, which was funded in part by Wachovia, was organized for educators in an effort to help them teach the importance of America's immigration heritage more effectively.
- In 2007 the Center hosted symposia nationwide in Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.The symposia focused on current immigration policies, presenting immigration in the classroom, sharing stories through oral history, learning with literature and media and using artifacts, primary sources and dramatic arts to teach immigration. This free day-long symposium was geared towards teachers and staff that were involved in developing and presenting curriculum to children. The program reviewed how the subject of immigration could be taught through many of the major disciplines-including language arts/reading, social studies/history, and even geography and mathematics (statistics, percentages, etc.). Participants obtained the necessary tools and ideas that are essential to teaching children about the importance of immigration to our nation. View the 2007 Manual. [2]
- In 2006, the Center held five successful teachers' symposia in 2006. Teachers attended free day long professional development workshops in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.The symposia focused on current immigration policies, presenting immigration in the classroom, sharing stories through oral history, learning with literature and media and using artifacts, primary sources and dramatic arts to teach immigration.