Exciting news! Join our 2024 FAMILY TAGALOF CLASS this November! Discover the joy of Filipino culture through language, songs, and creative activities.
Saturdays in November (11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23) from 10:00 – 11:30 am
Register: bit.ly/Tagalog-FS24
Parents, caregivers, and children are invited to learn about and connect to Filipino culture together as a family. You and your child(ren) will discover the joy of hearing, singing, and speaking Tagalog in a creative and immersive learning environment. No prior exposure to Tagalog is required. Attendance at all four sessions is encouraged but not required.
The class is recommended for families with children ages 1-7 years old. Parents or guardians must accompany children at all times.
Sliding scale donation: $5-20 per session or $20-80 for all 4-weeks
Introducing our Family Tagalog Class Teachers
Learn more about Ginger: Ginger is an educator, actor, director, producer, and community organizer. She is the founding Artistic Director of the Center for Immigrant Resources and Community Arts (CIRCA), and Executive Director of CIRCA Pintig. Her work includes performing, directing, producing, and facilitating theater productions and workshops for all ages. Ginger has created youth heritage curricula with techniques that utilize a basic integrated theater arts workshop methodology as well as Activism & Art workshops, STEAM Education, and programming that support the TEAACH Act for K -12 public school educators and students.
Ginger has over 20 years of experience as a teaching artist and literacy coach for public school teachers. In addition, she teaches English to students on a virtual and global platform and is an adjunct lecturer in the ESL program at the University of the Potomac. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational leadership focusing on the pedagogy of the Theatre of the Oppressed, popular education, and diaspora.
She received her B.A. and M.A. in theater from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her recent projects include the co-design and facilitation of a UIC-funded program called WAANT – Wellness through Asian American Narrative and Theatre, she is a TEAACH Act PD facilitator with Asian American Advancing Justice Chicago and serves as an advisor for several community boards including the Chicago History Museum, UIC’s Global Asian Studies (GLAS) Community and Advisory Board, and Digital Tapestries. Ginger is a proud 1.75-generation Filipino American and lives in Chicago with her husband and three children.
Learn more about Vanessa: Vanessa is the daughter of Filipino immigrants from Nueva Ecija and Tuguegarao. Rizal Center was an important part of her childhood and she is happy to return to Rizal Center as a Tagalog teacher with Filipino School of Chicago. Vanessa was born in Chicago, raised in Albany Park in the 80s, and attended Bell School. For Vanessa, public education is a key driver for collective liberation. She has served in a variety of capacities in PK-12 education across the country over the last 23 years as a teacher, literacy specialist, administrator, school leader coach, and education consultant.
Vanessa holds a Doctorate of Education in K-12 Educational Leadership and Policy from Vanderbilt University, an Ed.M. in School Leadership from Harvard University, an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from National Louis University, and a B.A. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is founder of Mapacaru LLC, a K-12 education consulting firm, and is currently faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Instructional Rounds Institute for Professional Development.
For questions please message us at FilipinoSchool@rizalcenter.org
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