We Had Fun Learning Summer 2023
This summer the South-East Asia Center – Bridge International School students enjoyed learning about the world around them. A full day curriculum was planned for everyday that involved exploring history, Read More …
Category: Articles
Articles written about SEAC or by SEAC associates.
Your Childcare Choices
DAYCARE * PRESCHOOL * AFTER-SCHOOL * ALL DAY SUMMER & HOLIDAYS Preparation for College and Life Balanced academics (lessons in science, math + human/social sciences important for life skills, business, Read More …
5120 Broadway Building History
The South-East Asia Center building at 5120 N. Broadway is one of the most architecturally interesting and unusual in the neighborhood with it’s stone detail and rooftop turret. Currently this Read More …
Article I – Celebrating Diversity or Celebrating Commonalities
Most of us have grown up hearing, teaching, and learning to celebrate diversity. This now fashionable conventional wisdom grew out of the rebellious 60’s and early 70’s. We rebels, myself Read More …
Article II Zero-sum or Positive-sum: Group vs. Self-pride
We humans have divided ourselves into groups throughout history and around the world. Good start – we could better raise families, hunt, protect from animals, divide responsibilities, specialize, do big Read More …
Article III Beyond Tourist Approach to Deeper Understanding
Ethnic fests may be fun, appetizing, and entertaining. But sharing ethnic foods, music, dance, and costumes breaks few cross-cultural barriers. It creates few jobs, improves few schools, and evaporates few Read More …
Article IV Multi-cultural or Cross-cultural Perspectives
A first suggestion is to switch our terminology from multicultural to cross-cultural. The new adjective must go with an action. This action, I call “bridge-building.” Putting two ethnic groups together, Read More …
Article V Small-Picture Dangers, Big-Picture Benefits
When we take a big picture rather than focusing on one race, ethnicity, continent, or period of history, we find that deeper down we have common histories. Expanding our everyday Read More …
Article VI How Religious and Hero Holidays Can Bring Us Together
Holiday celebration can be unifying or inadvertently divisive. We all celebrate holidays for the same reasons. We celebrate spring, harvest, or heroes, for example. On the other hand, celebrating ethnic Read More …
Article VII STEM and Cross-cultural Insensitivity. Alternatives
Educators possess prodigious pedagogical tools to teach pure and applied sciences. However, despite our ostensibly best efforts, schools are graduating a mixed bag of good and bad apples. We graduate Read More …
Article VIII Do Schools Promote Cross-cultural Insensitivity? Alternatives?
Despite our best efforts, including those of us in the progressive 60’s to 70’s, hippies, teachers, preachers, police, and human rights advocate protesters have obviously still a long way to Read More …
KN95 Masks !!!
Morning of January 12, 2022 47th Ward Alderman Matt Martin delivered in person 2,000 KN95 masks to our Center for our senior services clients and our child care parents. Pictured Read More …
SEAC Contribution to Uptown Renovation & Beautification
Throughout its 40-year history in the neighborhood, the South-East Asia Center (SEAC) has enjoyed preserving, beautifying, and enhancing the vibrancy of the Uptown-Edgewater neighborhood. In 1981 SEAC (“seek”) moved into Read More …
NEW LIFE NEWS
New Life News Association of Chinese from Indochina 4707 North Broadway, Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60640. (312) 989-6927 January 1985 Volume 2 Number 1 Why Americans Act & Think Strangely Read More …
Childcare Fee Reduced for Essential Workers | COVID-19 Update April 15,2020
The South-East Asia Center is providing childcare for essential workers such as those working in healthcare facilities or grocery stores. The fee in April and May for parents earning under Read More …
Help With Census 2020
UPDATE 3/31/2020 : According to the Census Bureau, the deadline to reply to the census has been extended to August 14, 2020. The public is strongly encouraged to respond online. Read More …
Know Your Alderman
It is a good idea to know the aldermen who represent your community. In Chicago, each individual building address is located within one of 50 “wards” and each “ward” is Read More …
Melissa Marie Tuason Named LVI ESL Tutor of the Year
Melissa Tuason named tutor of the year for 2018 by The Literacy Volunteers of Illinois (LVI) has been involved with South-East Asia Center for five years. “Melissa possesses exceptional initiative Read More …
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 …
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 …