Welcome to Borna Farsi School and Cultural House
ABOUT US
Language
Farsi
Culture
Individuality
Diversity
Compassion
Inspiration
Critical Thinking
Equality
Respect
Curiosity
Our Mission
At Borna's Farsi school and cultural center, our foremost objective is to provide our students with the essential cultural and language skills while fostering a deep appreciation and respect for their cultural heritage.
We are committed to delivering a high-quality education from an objective standpoint, ensuring that our students thrive in a safe, nurturing, and optimal learning environment.
Our program is to inspire a passion for learning the Farsi and all the unique cultural aspects associated with it, while encouraging Iranian American children to make positive contributions to our world and preserve their Persian culture.
Our Vision
At Borna Farsi school, we hold a strong belief that language skills can serve as a bridge to our rich and colorful Persian culture.
Our primary objective is to teach Farsi to our students in a compelling and powerfully irresistible manner, while also focusing on their individual unique passions and learning goals. We achieve this by utilizing a unique teaching method that has been developed and designed over the years of experience with Iranian American children.
Our ultimate desire is to encourage curiosity and train a generation of critical thinkers and creative learners who use their initiative, imagination, and common sense to succeed.
Teaching Philosophy
Our Teaching Approach
Our teaching method is based on the educational technology as the most effective and engaging method in the teaching and learning process.
In order to support student’s daily communicational needs and to ensure a great consistency in a high quality education, we constantly advance and improve our Curriculum to make sure that it satisfies individuals learning needs.
Our Curriculum is designed to advance student’s grasp and understanding of various educational and cultural topics in Farsi. We achieve this through Arts and educational technology as a learning tool.
To improve our effectiveness, we have gathered together a team of teachers and staff who have been carefully selected and trained to interact with students in a productive and positive way that supports Borna’s Vision.
Our Approach to Parents
Parents play an incredibly important role in their students' educational achievement throughout their lives. Communicating their children's unique abilities, weaknesses, strengths, and sensitivities is one of the most important roles parents have to ensure their children's success school.
At Borna, we believe that our commitment is not only to provide your child with language skills and cultural knowledge but also to have transparent and honest communication with families. We are deeply passionate about this collaboration because we believe that it helps us fulfill our commitment to train a generation of children and young students who benefit from high levels of self-confidence to overcome life's challenges. Teachers and parents play an important role in raising taking away children's confidence.
Borna's executives strongly believe that healthy and transparent communication, which only happens by sharing opinions and offering and receiving feedback regarding the student's condition and the challenges they face at school and/or at home, is the key to their success. We encourage and welcome parents to stay in touch with the school so that we can, together, guarantee a brighter future for our children.
Our Executives
Azam Nasehpour
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Born and raised in Tehran, Azam completed her higher education in Educational Technology. She began her educational activities focusing on early education, particularly, first graders. As a passionate educator, she worked over 20 years to adopt new and yet simple methods in using technology in education for both Parents and children. With the intention of raising the public awareness of this new born field in Iran, she held various educational workshops for teachers and parents to demonstrate how using technology in education could have an impact on the learning process and that how it could lead to a higher quality of life in general, and education in specific.
After immigrating to the United States, she expanded her activities and invented new methods that would apply to Bilingual Farsi- English student's speakers who had different educational needs than those in Iran. Having no doubts about the parent's essential role in maintaining a mentally, physically, and emotionally environment for their children's well being, and becoming aware of the necessity of the existence of an appropriate, healthy, and effective communication between parents and their children she began doing an extensive research on how to create this bridge.
After a year, of hard work and research, she finally achieved her goal by developing an engaging method that has been carefully designed and will be used in her new MOMMY and ME classes. To pass on her years of experiences to the younger and new generation including parents, teachers, and her students who she compassionately loves.
Observing the reaction, needs, and the learning process among bilingual students who were learning Farsi as their second language and comparing it with the same age category students who live in Iran where Farsi is the first spoken language, Azam soon realized that to satisfy her bilingual students needs, there has to be a change in their teaching material in addition to the teaching method she had already developed. As a result, in order to increase the chances of a higher quality education for her Bilingual students, Azam began developing new materials includug a new book that she is in the final stage of completion.
Dalileh Alaei
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Years ago in an underserved city of Banneh in Kurdistan side of Iran, an innocent discussion between a father and his young daughter who after the first chemistry class in high school knew that she had found her true passion but could not explore it any further due to the lack of a chemistry laboratory in the area resulted to a bigger movement that benefited all students in the area. That girl was Dalilah.
After two years of hard work and fighting against all the odds and limitations, Dalila’s father was able to establish the first chemistry labs and later on Labs for all the talented yet underserved students in the city of Baneh. That day she promised her father that she would dedicate her life to chemistry and humanity.
Dalilah’s dream of pursuing her dream of teaching finally came true when she received her Baccalaureate degree in chemistry. As promised to her father, she began her career by teaching chemistry to underserved high school students in different parts of Kurdistan for over 12 years, during which she developed a reputation among colleagues and students for her rare ability of making complex subjects pleasant and simple enough for students to comprehend. This rare ability followed her all the way to a different part of the world.
In 2005, she immigrated to the United States Where she received her bachelors's degree in Chemistry. After receiving her degree, she refocused her passion for learning to a passion for teaching and began teaching in various universities in the Bay Area. She soon realized that her love for teaching was rooted, not in the mere mechanics of memorization, but in the love of the learning process and problem solving at its most basic level.
Dalileh expanded her passion for teaching to include early childhood education when she moved to the United States where she became involved in teaching at the primary education level in several Bay Area Farsi schools. Since that time, she has also spent time working within the public school system. Dalileh’s enthusiasm for learning and her desire for academic excellence has prompted her to return to the halls of academia to pursue a Master’s degree in Chemistry with a new cultural perspective and in a new language.
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