How Teachers Can Support Arab-American Students

Cortez Deacetis

Listen to the interview with Sawsan Jaber (transcript): Sponsored by Fearless Schools and Google’s Applied Digital Skills One November morning in 2015, Sawsan Jaber was in her suburban Illinois classroom preparing for a day of teaching. As an Palestinian-American teacher in a district with an overwhelmingly white teaching staff, Jaber […]

How To Make Your Students Smarter

Cortez Deacetis

A lot of students do poorly simply because they believe that they’re incapable. They’re just not very good at university. And it shows in their deficiency of enthusiasm toward finding out. This in change results in additional failure, which further more reinforces this perception. It is a by no means-ending […]

Sad news out of Palm Coast, Florida

Cortez Deacetis

Sad news out of Palm Coast, Florida…  Over 500 students at Flagler-Palm Coast High School protested the state’s anti-LGBTQ ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill yesterday by walking out of school for 20 minutes or so. The main organizer of the event was suspended ‘until further notice’ (which is illegal under U.S. […]