Bridges of Understainding is a new Common Core State Standards aligned curriculum developed for United States middle school classrooms. Contextualizing the Arab World and providing a series of both critical thinking and creative lesson plans that shed light on the rich historical, scientific, mathematical, and cultural legacy of the region, this program is being piloted at BAL this academic school year before a national rollout. Development funding for this program has been provided by Donna Pearson Chapman and The Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation.

 

Once a week, Mr. Haque leads a video chat session with an all girls school in Jordan. The BAL students work with these young ladies across the world on projects that could impact their respective communities. Our students are working on confronting