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We visited Castelar Elementary School, the second oldest continuously operating school in Los Angeles, and spoke with Principal Cheuk Choi about Castelar's history and the obstacles of multicultural learning in public education.
Ms. Susan Dickson is a fifth grade teacher at Castelar Elementary School. Having taught for over two decades, she has seen the changing face of Chinatown through the eyes of her ten year olds.
Student producer Kevin On interviewed Thomas Liu, a Chinatown service center youth council member, talked about Chinatown Plaza's history and relevance in their lives.
William Chun-hoon, community leader, activist and former principal of Castelar, understood early on that in order to serve his constituency, he needed to create a place-based neighborhood ecology that could serve the community at large.
By creating a 3D world online, we create a place for the mind to fly while the body remains still.
Departures: Chinatown Student Producers share the story of how their families got to Chinatown.
Students from Environmental Charter High School come to Richland Farms in Compton to learn and document its urban agricultural practices.
Student producers working on Departures Venice share hand-drawn visions of their neighborhoods.
The First Lutheran Church of Venice is ironically set in a community where art and surfing could be considered religion.
At the center of the Mar Vista Gardens housing project is its recreation center.
Estrella Sanchez grew up coming to this center and knew of the old Mar Vista Gardens.
Tech Team, developed and run by Lois Webb and Vicki Landers, is one that provides free computing education, from basic typing instruction to building computers via creating web sites from scratch.
In this Departures installment, the team searches for youths with a strong attachment to historic Chinatown.