Thursday, November 7th, 2013, in conjunction with Public Broadcasting Atlanta (PBA), we will be hosting an online event to highlight the challenges facing the Latin Community in regard to graduating from high school. Liz will be introducing an online screening of the PBS documentary, The Graduates/Los Graduatos – The Girls Hour.  The documentary follows the path of three girls and their experiences and roadblocks.  This event is being held using the special PBS group screening software, OVEE and starts at 7:00 pm.  During the screening you will have an opportunity to engage in an online chat session with Liz, interpreter Jeannette Knoop, and other viewers on the webcast.  We’d love it if you could join us.  For additional information please follow this link: AmericanGraduateAtl.org/film.

TAYF founder Liz Lieberman recently spoke at the American Graduate Community Forum in Atlanta. Liz says we should help kids follow their dreams. She thinks we must deal with anger issues by helping teens develop a strategy for communitcating.  Liz feels strongly that we should focus more on learning and less on testing. She says that what’s most important is not how teens treat adults, it’s how they treat each other that really counts. If students had each other’s back, there would be far fewer students dropping out of school.