#ParentCampChat Week 8 Recap – What it means to be a refugee with Mirsada Kadiric @kadiricmirsada – Ready for Week 9 The Most Important Time of the School Year – The 1st Two Weeks – Wednesday 8/14 9:30 pm ET/6:30 pm PT
**Note – Sorry this summary is so late this week, our kiddos started back to school today and the mad rush of school supply shopping was on!
Did you miss #ParentCampChat Week 8 – What it means to be a refugee with Mirsada Kadiric @kadiricmirsada? You can catch up by scrolling through all of the tweets on our Wakelet summary: https://wakelet.com/wake/35041fcc-1e99-469a-9508-231b921f8964
Short Intro Video – https://youtu.be/-svauOYrrd4
Mirsada’s Full Story – https://youtu.be/twoAw16Q8Rs
We would like to thank our very special guest, Mirsada Kadiric (@kadiricmirsada). Mirsada was born in Bosnia and immigrated to the United States as a war refugee in the summer of ’98 when she was sixteen years old. Not speaking the English language, and unfamiliar with the American culture, Mirsada struggled to adjust to her new high school environment. She managed to graduate with honors and chose to attend Northern Kentucky University where she further excelled and landed in the Market Research industry where she still works to this day. In 2016, she began volunteering her time serving the needs of the refugee population in the Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky region, and in 2018, Mirsada released her first book, titled “I Am a Refugee: Finding Home Again in America”. The book is a memoir reflecting her personal story. She wanted this book to serve as a voice for refugees around the world who are struggling to find a place they can call home again. Let’s give Mirsada a warm welcome and hear her talk about her life as we learn what it actually means to be a refugee through her lived experiences.
Some highlights from the chat:
@DJE_29 – Make sure impacted communities had access to resources they needed and made himself available to do home visits so he could learn about their cultures.
@cindy_blasi – Everyone should be loved and valued just like another
@EmmaBoniche – Allow them to bring their culture into the classroom and embrace it.
@Howells_Owells – Sometimes cultural differences are misinterpreted as behavioral challenges or a negative attitude.
@JeremyDBond – Cultural differences are outward clues; if we don’t understand them, we can’t claim to know what’s in their heart.
@DaleChu – Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
@KadiricMirsada – Inherent challenge is the language barrier, but by making everyone feel hard, without judgement of their language skills, the communication will improve over time.
@juliepile – Someone used the analogy the other day, we are not a melting pot, but a stew. We all are there in our own pieces, keeping some of our own shapes and flavors, but together we create something wonderful.
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August 14th we will be talking about the Importance of the First Two Weeks of School. We were inspired by Thomas Guskey’s (@tgusky) article – http://tguskey.com/importance-first-two-weeks/
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