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Call to Action: Chicago's Humanitarian Crisis
Since August 2022, more than 36,000 new immigrants have arrived in Chicago. While local and national efforts have been focused on providing necessities such as shelter, food, and job services for adults, there is a significant need for enrichment opportunities for the 12,000+ immigrant students with limited or interrupted formal education. The New American Scholar Program [NAS] is a summer enrichment and afterschool curriculum that infuses immersive learning environments with SEL teaching practices, SLIFE pedagogy & language acquisition theory.
“[New arrivals] are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children, with the same hopes and ambitions as us — except that a twist of fate has bound their lives to a global refugee crisis on an unprecedented scale.”
Program Overview
We envision a city where newly arrived students to Chicago Public Schools have access to transformative learning environments that empower them as scholars, citizens, and leaders.
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We leverage research-based curricula to help new arrivals acquire English language proficiency while developing social and emotional competencies, cross-cultural navigation skills, and native language development.
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"We are more than what you see in the news."
Newly Arrived Immigrant Student; age 15.
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