MISSION EDUCATION CENTER

About The Mission Education Center

Mission Education Center (MEC) is one of several “newcomer programs” developed in response to the continuing influx of immigrants to San Francisco, providing a safe learning environment for children to learn skills for success in a U.S. classroom. Instruction at MEC is mostly in Spanish for this one year before students are mainstreamed into other SFUSD schools. MEC has some visual art instruction, but we saw the school’s need for Spanishspeaking teaching-artists with relevant life experience. We knew that recruiting for artists with this particular background could also help address our challenge of connecting not only with students and staff, but also families, making our programs relevant to our area.