{"id":1452,"name":"Sabra","url":"","description":"Who am I?  A question I have never been able to answer. I can tell you my qualities, heritage, history, beliefs, fears, joys and concerns.  Does that tell you who I am?  You might get an idea, an abstract, at best.  Depending when you talk to me, I can be as simple as anything, or more complicated than Quantum Inorganic Chemistry if there is such a field. In describing myself I empathize with the ELL student sitting in my class. Do I really know him? In my few years of existence, I have traveled the world as a student. I am an English language learner. A proprietor of education in four continents.  I've seen many approaches to pedagogy through my travels from England to the United States, from Lebanon to Africa. None ever did a second language learner any justice. One of the final stops in my travels was a big old country town of Okeechobee Florida.  Needless to say Southern Florida\u2019s ESL program was not catered, nor very accommodating to and for Arabic speaking students. A year after arriving, in the sixth grade, I was evaluated by the school guidance counselor to see if I needed any special need for my low performance in English and spelling. I didn\u2019t understand their idioms, or expressions. Nor did I comprehend why they were spelling color without a \u201cu\u201d. My sixth grade teacher began to read to us every day. Starting with My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George and finishing off with Tom Sawyer, and Huck Finn.","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabra\/author\/sabram1\/","slug":"sabram1","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabra\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1452\/5b96b59f7f7a5-bpthumb.jpg","48":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabra\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1452\/5b96b59f7f7a5-bpthumb.jpg","96":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabra\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1452\/5b96b59f7ad51-bpfull.jpg"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sabra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}