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at a street market than out of a catalogue, where prices were jacked up by 300 percent. Her staff were “voracious” learners, and quickly trained up. But she often found that doctors and nurses went right from the American equivalent of high school, straight into a specialty for the next six years. There was very little general medical or science training. There were also the cultural differences. Doctors were expected to take one look at a patient, and know instantly what was wrong. To simply say

,” Abbas said. “And now two-and-a-half-years later I’m an MFT – I’ve graduated. “It was a struggle in the beginning.” There was an age gap with many of his fellow students and there were cultural differences too. And of course the program was academically rigorous. But even with those challenges, maybe because of them, Abbas has developed not only reliable colleagues, but lifelong friendships. “Najib is an outstanding person and therapist,” Ward said. “I have been extremely impressed with his

gap through better public policies and educational support systems at every stage in the pipeline. “It’s inequitable practices in education that lead to a lack of achievement for groups of people,” she said. “If we can’t fulfill our potential because we just don’t have a way to do it, then we aren’t getting to the realization of human dignity.” Chavez said she sought out and received support throughout her own educational journey, despite external challenges: a cultural background in which she

SchoolsChief Leschi is one of nearly 200 tribal schools in the United States. Operated by the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, it enrolls 670 students in preschool through high school.  Visual representations of Northwest Native culture and art are present throughout the school, and the curriculum is infused with the tribe’s cultural heritage. The architectural design of the campus reflects the concept of the circle — which reflects beliefs about the natural world and humanity’s place in the circle of life. At

representations of Northwest Native culture and art are present throughout the school, and the curriculum is infused with the tribe’s cultural heritage. The architectural design of the campus reflects the concept of the circle — which reflects beliefs about the natural world and humanity’s place in the circle of life. At the center of the school is the Sacred Circle, a spot of earth undisturbed throughout the construction of the campus. Each building opens to the Sacred Circle, with communal places such as

had some way of connecting it to something else that was a strange tangent idea that didn’t make it connection right away, but reading into what he said, always made more sense. So finding a way to connect this disparate ideas together was something that I still try. So I try to read more than just design stuff and watch more than just documentaries and look at more than just design work. I am trying to be influenced and influence students in other ways so their creative is more than just what