Our instructors own the intellectual property of what they prepare or teach for us online.

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Many of our employees are not too far removed from going through the college admissions process, and when our instructors teach an STC course, they often realize how much that course would have helped when they were applying to college.

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Chief SIZER: We've just gone through our in-service training annually, and we had instructors who really talked about that, clueing officers in that disrespectful communication is often interpreted by minorities as racial bias when in fact the officer may be acting like a jerk, and maybe he or she routinely acts like a jerk.

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We are even worse at understanding how our brains work when we try to make changes, and most instructors aren't much help, either.

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Our members are tutoring immigrant students and assisting them with their academics, serving as English as a Second Language instructors, connecting community members to services and resources in their local areas, conducting workshops on volunteer recruitment, health education amongst other necessary and important topics.

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The Department of Education estimates that 200, 000 more children, largely minority, will enter our public schools every year, and unless we want MTV Cribs, MySpace, and YouTube to be their primary instructors about life in America, we will need schools that accept the responsibility for bringing not just them but their families into our society.

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