Lower East Side Tenement Museum

By expanding the Shared Journeys program to include workshops for high school English language learners, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum seeks to expand its community outreach. The project will lay a foundation for collective social action by providing immigrants with a forum in which to share their histories. It also will help immigrants to confront daily challenges, and build partnerships between community-based organizations and immigrant groups. The museum plans to use the results of this program as a best practice model for both English language instruction and museum programming.