2025 – Unity Academy

Zainab Jawa

Role: Lower Elementary Quran & Arabic Teacher

Education: TBC

Certification: TBC

Personal information

TBC.

Sughra Jafri

Role: Assistant Lower Elementary Teacher

Education: B.Sc. in Chemistry, Loyola University

Certification: Elementary Reading, American Montessori Society; Discovering Montessori, Seton Montessori Institute

Personal information

Sughra Jafri has more than 20 years of experience working with children. She has invested in the holistic education of her six children by instilling in them a love for reading and faith-based learning from an early age. With her husband, she homeschooled her eldest daughter during 2nd and 3rd grade using K-12’s cutting edge interactive online curriculum. Since then, she has continued nurturing her children’s curiosity in various hands-on learning environments including museums, libraries, and parks.

Since September 2023, Sughra has been Unity Academy's Battle of the Books coach, leading them to a first and second place finish. She looks forward to being active in the classroom and instilling a love of learning in the community's children.

Her interests include planning family trips, including National Park camping trips and international trips; making Islamic trivia games; hosting family gatherings; capturing family memories through photos and videos; exploring healthy and innovative baking recipes; biking, playing word games; and, of course, reading.