Education

PROGRAMS AND AREAS OF FOCUS.

ADULT EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, AND MISSION.

FCO educates parents on strategies that can actively support their children's educational and personal development.

PARENT INVOLVEMENT

Frida enables parents to learn about themselves and their children's education. This improves their quality of life and leads them to better participate in the educational process of their children.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Our children are the only hope for the world's future; we as parents are their only hope in the present.

FAMILY

Parents develop attitudes and skills that allow them to effectively work as a family unit.

EDUCATION

Parents learn strategies that they can use to overcome personal problems and to support their children with a new attitude.

SOCIAL ISSUES

Parents are educated in preventative measures that address the social issues that children and youth face.

HEALTH

Parents learn about healthy habits, with a focus on diabetes prevention and self-detection of breast cancer and cervical cancer.

SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Our in-school Student programs allow us to help our students develop a sense of self-expression and discipline through various art and academic forms.

Currently, our student programs are all offered through a multidisciplinary component under the name of RISE (Resources Invested in School Enrichment). RISE is a partnership with 7 elementary and 3 high schools, a five-year grant program from the Illinois State Board of Education and the U.S. Department of Education. Through a variety of after-school programming RISE Academy’s objective is to support students, parents, and community members in their academic and personal growth. Creating an involved, informed, and empowered school community is our ultimate goal.

BREAKDANCE

Breakdance classes promote individual and team learning. Students learn about the various components that make up an often-misunderstood area of performing arts.

FOLKLORIC DANCE

Through traditional Mexican Folkloric Dance, students learn dances, songs, and history from all regions of Mexico.

History, culture, and language are areas that are fully incorporated as part of these classes.

S.T.E.M.

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.

Through various programs and other activities, Frida instructors guide students through the learning of S.T.E.M. concepts and the creation of items such as solar-powered cars, robots, musical instruments, and coding.

VISUAL ARTS

Students learn about history, culture, and community through the creation of mosaic arts, murals, portraits, paintings, sketching, and folk art such as alebrijes, piñatas, printmaking, and other works.

DRAMA

Students learn about self-expression through different aspects of theater including stage terminology, acting skills, set building, costumes, and makeup design.

Adult Education has always been one Frida’s main focuses. By offering adult education, we hope to empower our community so that it may keep progressing.  We have various sites throughout the city which offer ESL, Computer literacy and STEAM classes for adults in the community and no cost. It is important that we help further develop the educational skills of those in our community because they open doors to better employment opportunities, improve our quality of life, enable us to strive for excellence, and create opportunities to become involved in matters that concern our community, state, country, and the world in general and so we may improve as human beings and contribute to the education of new generations. Besides on-going adult education, Frida offers a full range of workshops to help parents in our communities be their children’s #1 tool for success.  All of our themes offered fall under one of four categories: Academic Success, Family Discipline, Nutrition and Physical Fitness and Visual Arts.  All of these help participants gain knowledge in areas necessary to their child’s development.  All workshops can be offered in English or Spanish number of participant limits vary per theme.  For more information or to book a workshop, please contact Gisela Reyes at 773-650-4915 or send an email to gisela@fridacommunity.org.