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We also got a chance to talk with Musa about how he and his SJC students have been continuing their education via online classes from their homes.

As viewers are aware, some businesses and schools have set up online portals to allow for continuous studies and work, while the heightened COVID-19 measures are in place.

He told us that he has been trying to find that balance to keep his students motivated while ensuring they don’t get burnt out:

Yasser Musa - Teacher, SJC
"Obviously, we have been thrust into a very dramatic and uncertain situation. And I don’t think we can go 100% with this online. There is no way we can expect our students to just be on a device. We’ve been preaching that they should come off the device and do some actual human interaction. So, I don’t advocate for constantly being on a device learning. However, I do advocate that students require, at this time, structure, and so, we’re finding our structure. We’re working together as a group of teachers, and as a community at SJC with our administrators, constantly online, figuring out how to create a balance between having students remain engaged, learning, thinking, reading, having discussions and analyzing and things like that, but also, for them to have downtime and able to spend time with their families and doing research. In our art and history department, we have had 7 years of using a website as our main tool in terms where information is stored - or ‘harvested’ as we call it - by the students. So, they already have this kind of dynamic interest in our history program. So, I have to say that the first week of our online lessons went extremely well. I would say that we had over 90% participation."