The Teacher’s Desk

By Omaira Alam – I went to two teachers’ colleges, one for undergrad and one for my master’s degree. Both of them were reputable and high-ranking. The first taught [...]

Omaira Alam – Who is teaching our teachers? In a recent conversation with a friend, I was told that they are doing some serious classroom management training sessions [...]

Omaira Alam – On January 22 six young ladies from a local Ahwatukee high school decided to wear black T-shirts with gold lettering that when they stood together spelled [...]

Omaira Alam – Often, I come across parents who express joy at the thought that their kindergartener came home with homework, and more often than not, this is the case [...]

Omaira Alam- Recently, I asked my friend’s daughter, a freshman in college, how she liked her Islamic school experience given that except for a couple of years she spent [...]

Omaira Alam – Almost 20 years ago, I worked at my first Islamic school as your typical overworked, underpaid and starry-eyed novice Islamic school teacher. In addition [...]

Omaira Alam – “You’re in education. What do you think?” I look on silently, expectantly, because I know what’s coming. “My son is almost three years old, what [...]

Omaira Alam – After a year of consultation work with a school in Canada, my colleagues and I were shocked to learn that the masjid board, after dissolving the school [...]

Omaira Alam – One of the beautiful concepts to emerge from the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and further expanded upon through the 2001 Americans [...]

Omaira Alam – The past couple of weeks I have been teaching at the Ramadan school, a child-enrichment program offered at the Islamic Community Center of Tempe – ICC [...]