International Learning Center offers adult ESL & citizenship classes, math and computer workshops, job readiness; on-site preschool
Twenty-eight ILC students made a spring visit to the Neighborhood House Nature Center to help pick garlic mustard, part of a land management plan to control invasive species at the 90-acre Dodge County site. The weather was wet, so the first order of business was to get everyone properly outfitted. Plastic garbage bags did double duty as…
Over two dozen students from International Learning Center set out with gloves, trash bags, and trash pickers as part of our Earth Day clean-up on April 22nd. With supplies provided by Keep Greater Milwaukee Beautiful, we collected 20 bags of trash from the area around our school, including the grounds of Central United Methodist Church…
ILC students who attend one of our MATC-affiliated classes visited the downtown campus today to get a glimpse of the different kinds of programs offered. Ron Harkins welcomed us into the tool and die shop where we learned about integrated ESL/machining programs for immigrants; students would like to see this kind of program started for…
ILC Students celebrated winter – and for many, their first snow – with a visit to the Neighborhood House Nature Center in Dodge County. Nearly 40 students from Burma, Sudan, Somalia, Laos, and Haiti hiked in the woods, learned about (and tasted) maple sugar, found animal tracks, made snowballs, and sledded. Some will return on…
Our new citizenship initiative for older refugees has launched! The course emphasizes the skills necessary to pass the US citizenship exam, combined with activities such as arts & crafts, exercise and gardening. The initiative addresses an important need: after 7 years of residency in the US, immigrants who have not become US citizens can lose eligibility…