This event is a community lecture and open discussion addressing:

The models integration of immigrant and refugee children in European public schools and the United States;
Lessons the United States and Europe can learn from each other about integration of minority children in school; and
How we can better serve the needs of immigrant and minority children public schools in Champaign County.

Please join us in the Robeson Pavilion Room C at the Champaign Public Library at 5:30pm for the presentation and discussion led by Ms. Letitia M. Zwickert.

More on Letitia M. Zwickert

As a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar, Letitia performed a qualitative comparative case study from January to June of 2016, assessing best practices in education for migrants and minorities in France, Luxembourg and Belgium. Her study tried to answer how education in these countries supports all high school children, regardless of their social or cultural heritage, by looking at best practices at the teacher, administrative, and Ministry levels.

This event is funded, in part, by an Illinois Humanities Community Grant as part of its Illinois Speaks program. To see other upcoming Illinois Speaks events, visit our events page. Apply here for an Illinois Speaks Community Grant. Learn more about our Community Grants program.