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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nPueblo High School welcomes recent University of Arizona graduate Mr. Oliver Yizukoni as the new French teacher for the 2023-24 school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yizukoni was born in Ghana, Africa, and graduated from Bolgatanga (aka \u201cBig Boss Senior High School\u201d). After 30 years in his native country, he came to the United States to complete his master\u2019s degree in French and to begin a teaching career soon thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGrowing up in Ghana, I was able to learn multiple languages such as English, French, Twi, Talen, Dagbani and Grune,\u201d said Yizukoni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He first taught French to adults for nine years at the U of A before deciding to teach at the high school level. After four months into the school year, Yizukoni said that he loves his job, his students and has already made a commitment to stay as long as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI learned early on how much I loved teaching,\u201d Yizukoni said. \u201cWhen I was in the seventh and eighth grades, I really enjoyed helping my classmates with their work. I think I knew then how much I loved teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After several years of not having more than Spanish as a foreign language choice at Pueblo, Yizukoni said that he is glad to fill the \u201cvoid\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI want my students to write and eventually speak fluent French,\u201d Yizukoni said. \u201cI wish my students the best as they learn a new language because I know how difficult it can be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Saul Arias & Aubrey Garcia Pueblo High School welcomes recent University of Arizona graduate Mr. Oliver Yizukoni as the new French teacher for the 2023-24 school year. Yizukoni was born in Ghana, Africa, and graduated from Bolgatanga (aka \u201cBig Boss Senior High School\u201d). After 30 years in his native country, he came to the … Continue reading French Returns To Pueblo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,373,208,301],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-Yr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}