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Mr. Jouya's Classroom

  • University Academy
  • Kansas City, MO
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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  • Help Urban Debaters Attend a Summer Debate Institute!

    Funded Mar 6, 2018

    Thank you so much for your incredibly generous donation to our project. I can't tell you enough how much this means to my students and little ol' me too.

    Debate is an especially important even today's political and cultural climate - for students to use it as a platform to find their voice and learn about the world around them is genuinely revolutionary. Thanks to you and your support, these young minds will be able to further their skills and even have a shot at earning significant collegiate scholarships.”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Jouya

    This classroom project was brought to life by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and 6 other donors.

  • Help Urban Debaters Get a Much Needed Tech Upgrade!

    Funded Dec 24, 2017

    Thank you so much for your generous donation to our program and investing in our students.

    I can't tell you how much your charitable act means to me and our students - for them to constantly walk into a tournament and know that they are on a more equitable playing field with their peers from other schools.

    Debate can open so many doors to so many students, but when they feel like they've already lost before they start, it seems insurmountable. Having laptops to share documents and speech material just like other schools helps our debaters win and encourages them to continue working hard.

    Our kids have been thrilled and have increased our winning ways thanks to you,”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Jouya

  • Help Urban Debaters Attend a Summer Debate Institute!

    Funded Feb 15, 2018

    Thank you so much for your incredibly kind gesture to aid my students in their development. Competitive academic debate is challenging and wonderful in so many ways - for our underserved students to be able to stay on a college campus and focus their summertime on the activity they love is amazing as it is. To know that they can make connections and network with a plethora of college debate coaches is even more impressive.

    Thanks to you - this is a tangible reality for us!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Jouya

    This classroom project was brought to life by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and 14 other donors.

  • Send Our Middle School Debate Team to Nationals!

    Funded Jan 20, 2017

    I wanted to reach out to you as we are in our final week of preparation before head out to nationals in seven days - a trip that would have been an impossibility without your generosity.

    Due to the help of our school and your donation, we are able to send eight students to battle wits with the best the nation has to offer in policy debate. We're all excited and preparing very hard to ensure that we're ready for any and all arguments ranging from space colonization of Mars to conflicts in the South China Sea.

    It's my firm belief that debate is the most important activity young people can participate in to become activists in their community and to become college ready - there's no incentive like winning an argument to ensure life-long learning.

    Through your help, we are able to make a serious impression in the lives of these students and I can't thank you enough.”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Jouya

    This classroom project was brought to life by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and 14 other donors.

  • Send Our Middle School Debate Team to Nationals Part 2!

    Funded Feb 28, 2017

    From the bottom of my heart, I'd like to thank you so much for donating to our incredible cause of getting our students to the middle school debate nationals.

    Due to your incredibly generous donations and fundraising of our own, we are able to get eight of our students to Birmingham, Alabama this summer to compete against the nation's best debaters. We don't intend to merely attend, but to compete! For no less than four hours a week after school, our debaters have put in work on evidence, research, and practice speeches to prepare for the journey and have already learned so much. Not only have they honed their speaking skills but also their knowledge base on everything from the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense system in South Korea to Taiwanese independence!

    All of this would not be possible without your help and once we get to competing, we'll give you the full scoop on our success!”

    With gratitude,

    Mr. Jouya

    This classroom project was brought to life by Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and 17 other donors.
Competitive academic debate has always been the intellectual sport of the privileged and well-off. Luckily, the tides have changed and the activity has incorporated a very diverse pool of students. Even still, there are some inequities between schools and programs that make the barrier to entry into the world of debate that much more difficult. There is no greater symbol of this imbalance than a debater's inability to afford a laptop. Imagine the stress of entering the high pressure world of a high school debate tournament as the only school without laptops. For my students this is a regularity that not only represents an achievement gap but also a mental obstacle to overcome. The benefits of going paperless in debate cannot be overstated: it saves our school and program a good amount of long term funds from having to print massive files - the average high school debater researches an equivalent amount of academic date as a graduate student! It would also allow for students to gain the critical technological skills to create, organize, and collaborate on documents and projects that very much translate to college and career readiness. These laptops for our debaters would mean better and more efficient students who would be on a more even footing with their more financially secure peers. The ability to process, research, and create files electronically would make a certain and palpable difference to our competitive success, a key to opening doors to collegiate scholarships and general student achievement.

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Competitive academic debate has always been the intellectual sport of the privileged and well-off. Luckily, the tides have changed and the activity has incorporated a very diverse pool of students. Even still, there are some inequities between schools and programs that make the barrier to entry into the world of debate that much more difficult. There is no greater symbol of this imbalance than a debater's inability to afford a laptop. Imagine the stress of entering the high pressure world of a high school debate tournament as the only school without laptops. For my students this is a regularity that not only represents an achievement gap but also a mental obstacle to overcome. The benefits of going paperless in debate cannot be overstated: it saves our school and program a good amount of long term funds from having to print massive files - the average high school debater researches an equivalent amount of academic date as a graduate student! It would also allow for students to gain the critical technological skills to create, organize, and collaborate on documents and projects that very much translate to college and career readiness. These laptops for our debaters would mean better and more efficient students who would be on a more even footing with their more financially secure peers. The ability to process, research, and create files electronically would make a certain and palpable difference to our competitive success, a key to opening doors to collegiate scholarships and general student achievement.

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