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...When Nguyen started to describe her kids, she says, “This is so exciting. Some people say I talk about my kids too much...
...students, Anna, had selective mutism and would only talk to people in the family or people she trusted, Nguyen says. Her regular school teacher had told Nguyen that Anna was excessively shy and only spoke in one-word answers, but then “one day at BRYE, Anna said, ‘Wait for me, okay?’ and it was a really big deal,” Nguyen recounts. She says it might have been the influence of being around younger people and more liberal teachers...
...Nguyen, a director of the summer program and a junior at UMass-Amherst who also went through the BRYE program, says that he remembers, “this one morning, when Anna’s mom came up to me and told me Anna was really anxious to have her drive her to BRYE because she missed her friends and Thanh...
Another day, Nguyen spent time teaching the students how to express their feelings. She started with the basic “happy” and “sad,” but then also threw in “confused.” She says that although she spent 15 minutes on it and got really frustrated, all her students could muster was “confu-.” Later that week, in a moment Nguyen calls a “highlight,” her student Tony was banging on a desk during a lesson. When asked...
This past summer Nguyen taught the youngest beginning level, a task only she could have taken on, says Summer Director Sarah T. Tsang ’03-’04. According to Tsang, Nguyen’s unrelenting dedication beyond the minimum hours that are “exhausting already” inspired everyone. After the summer ended Nguyen tutored one of her students every day until school started...