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December 10, 2019

International Year of Indigenous Languages

We are about to close the year 2019 which celebrated the importance of indigenous languages. Let’s continue to promote and keep our many languages that constitutes...

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December 02, 2019

Interview of the Week with Meena Negandhi

Since 2018, the FAA has worked with Math in the City to implement math routines. To continue to strengthen our math curriculum and prepare our 8th grade students to...

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November 22, 2019

In Search of Cultural Agility

During the AFSA (http://www.aefa-afsa.org) Conference in Denver, Donna Orem, President of NAIS – National Association of Independent schools – gave a vision...

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November 18, 2019

Interview of the Week with Lamys and Sophia

Today, we are celebrating two 5th graders, Lamys and Sophia, both students at the Jersey City Campus. Sophia has a passion for hockey and Lamys is a talented piano...

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News Stories November 11, 2019

Interview of the Week with Delphine Francois

Delphine Francois has opened the first PK3 class of the FAA in September 2008. For the last 11 years, many students from PK3 to Kindergarten have bloomed into independent...

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November 06, 2019

Math Routine by Jamila Idnnajem

My name is Jamila and I am the 5th grade teacher in the FAA Jersey City Campus. Last year, we were trained in a different way to do math, or rather to think differently...

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