Key Staff of South-East Asia Center
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Author: Outreach
November Celebration Luncheon
Our Golden Diners Club served about 150 seniors at the November Pre-Thanksgiving” celebration. Seven turkeys were roasted by nearby Sun Wah BBQ. Four of the turkeys were donated through the efforts of Read More …
Getting ready for the flu season
Healthcare workers were on hand at South-East Asia Center Broadway location to provide flu vaccines to visitors, clients and staff. Everyone should do whatever you can to reduce the Read More …
Preschool Graduation Highlights 2018
The older kids help the 2018 preschool grads celebrate their accomplishment.
ESL Volunteer Gets State of Illinois Award
Spotlight on Service Award Sarah Poontong of South-East Asia Center (SEAC) was one of ten recipients honored with the “Spotlight on Service Award” presented by Secretary of State Jesse White Read More …
Earth Day Clean-Up 2018
Children of the South-East Asia Center’s Bridge International School celebrated Earth Day 2018 by cleaning up nearby Cedar Park and two blocks of Winthrop Street in Chicago’s Edgewater community. Read More …
Executive Director/ Director of Programs | San O, MSW
San O is an MSW, anthropologist, and linguist who served as Executive Director (November 2013 – February 2015) upon Peter Porr’s retirement as E.D. in November of 2013 and again Read More …
Lunar New Year Banquet 2018
2018 Year of the Dog Highlights of Ten-Course Banquet & Entertainment at Furama Restaurant Chicago, IL 60640 Celebration featured a variety of entertainment and comments from community leaders. The ten-course Read More …
Founder / Executive Director Emeritus | Peter Porr
In 1981 SEAC was the first Asian group to appoint a non-Asian executive director. Peter Porr was working on a Ph.D. program in the Politics of Education at the University Read More …
SEAC EMPLOYEES
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Director of Children’s Programs | Run-Hao Hu
SEAC’s Education Division is ably administered by Director of Children’s Programs, Run-Hao Hu (1986-present) from SEAC’s School Office at 1134 West Ainslie Street. Beginning as an ESL student in Mr. Read More …
NEW MULTICULTURAL CURRICULUM |Newsletter 1
How much does racial prejudice affect elementary classrooms in urban schools, especially the early grades? There is much debate among elementary educators on the answer to that troubling question. Some believe young children are still too innocent to be “corrupted” by America’s racial strife so early in life. Others believe that parent and neighborhood prejudice is quickly absorbed by the children and infuses the classroom from the first day of school. Read More …
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES | Newsletter 2
In our first newsletter, we explained the new perspective on multicultural education that is being developed by a team of educators at the South-East Asia Center in the Uptown area of Chicago. This newsletter will provide a review of the best multicultural educational resources that were used by the Center’s team to help develop their curriculum for grades 1-3 and 7-8. Read More …
CULTURAL SEPARATISM DANGER FOR AMERICA | Newsletter 3
What do the “liberal” Mother Jones and the “conservative” American Legion magazines have in common? Both recently published articles warn of the dangerous role cultural separatists are playing in building chasms between ethnic groups, thereby dividing America. Read More …
GENESIS FOR MULTICULTURAL EDUCATIONAL APPROACH | Newsletter 4
The South-East Asia Center is very concerned that traditional multicultural education often unwittingly supports the separatists agenda. The Center strongly believes that we should be developing curriculum that counters this agenda by teaching our children to understand others’ perspectives and through historically accurate histories and better cultural understanding learn to appreciate the power that comes from recognizing common goals and harnessing cooperative action. The Center is developing such a curriculum and teaching it in two Chicago Public schools. Read More …
THE LAND OF MANY COLORS | Newsletter 5
A class of pre-schoolers in Klamath Falls, Oregon wrote with their teacher one of the best anti-violence reading books for K-3 that we have ever found. The Land of Many Colors evolved during the Persian Gulf war because the preschoolers had many questions about war due to family members and friends involvement. Read More …
MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION REVISITED | Newsletter 6
At first glance SEAC’s model multicultural curriculum targetting children in the multiethnic Uptown-Edgewater’s McCutcheon and Goudy Schools, seems not to be all that out of the ordinary. Curriculum focuses on developing self-esteem, positive social interaction skills and cooperation skills with a goal of ultimately more peaceful, productive classrooms and society. Students examine prejudice, stereotyping, discrimination, victimization, conflict resolution, peer pressure, goal setting, problem solving, parenting, values, teamwork, communication and life skills all geared, of course, to age level. Read More …
CROSS-CULTURAL CELEBRATIONS|Newsletter 7
Holiday celebration can be fun, multiculturally educational and legal — as far as separation of church and state.
Christmas carols, for instance, can easily be turned into multicultural lessons. Children can feel they are participating in the spirit of the season while teachers can feel they are abiding by the law and teaching lessons with a virtuous, yet non-sectarian theme. Read More …
SEAC Mission
Building Bridges of Compassion, Understanding & Cooperation. Finding success, happiness, harmony, and understanding with many kinds of people.