Inspiring Teachers: Educating and Empowering Our Youth with Bayan Founas

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Unswtnd+Unfltrd

Relationships, Depression, Society & Culture, Women, Health & Fitness, Self Care, Islam, Mental Illness, Politics, Sisterhood. Life Coach, Faith, Anxiety, Divorce, Mental Health, Relationship Advice, Religion & Spirituality, Marriage, Muslim Women, Muslim, Taboo

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Toss out those outdated lesson plans and forget about sticking to the book. In Ep. 4 of Season 2, we are joined by Detroit educator, Bayan Founas, who is truly redefining what it means to be an educator.Teaching is by far one of the most important careers out there. Bayan spends a good chunk of her day shaping the future leaders, doctors, lawyers and artists of our next generation. But as rewarding as this may sound, teaching can also be extremely difficult. With limited resou...

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0:00.0	Trump impeachment.
0:02.0	Scroll, scroll, scroll.
0:05.0	Pregnant Muslim woman punched and stopped.
0:08.0	Scroll, scroll, scroll.
0:10.0	Your poetry sucks.
0:12.0	You should be a dog walker instead.
0:14.0	Scroll, scroll, scroll.
0:16.0	Charges drop for a sexual assault case.
0:19.0	Scroll, scroll, Detroit schools rank Lois again in reading scores.
0:23.1	Scroll, ice rates coming to your city.
0:25.3	Scroll, black man killed at hands of police.
0:27.7	Scroll, steal no water and no justice for Flint.
0:31.1	I was never taught how to deal with hateful headlines.
0:34.9	Never taught how to deal with treacherous trauma.
0:39.8	Never taught how to deal with backsevers and bullying. Had to teach myself how to unplug, but how can I unplug the same plug my
0:45.9	success depends on. As soon as I unplug back in, there's more hate waiting. Fannie Lou Hamer said
0:51.9	it best, I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. Yeah, I'm
0:55.4	stressed and I'm impressed because I'm going to be the best, but at least I say dressed to impress.
1:00.5	God is putting me through this test we call life. Al-hamdulah, he blessed me with his power to
1:04.5	express, but I dare anyone suppress. I'm a huff up my chest, let these words with the punching
1:08.8	and place your lack of intelligence on house arrest.
1:11.3	Better watch what I say.
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