Teachers explaining the benefits on Cougars taking their classes for 2026-27 school year
Olivier Cougard said, “I’m the French teacher, [you should take it because] French is a beautiful language, it's a language that is spoken in more than 30 different countries and territories and it's one of the languages that's expanding the fastest in the world so that's a very important language to learn. More specifically about the French class, I would say I want to try to make my class fun so I believe that if you want to learn a language you have to have fun… I think it's important to learn the french language but also the french culture so in my class people are gonna learn about all the french-speaking countries.” Photo by: Samantha Martinez
![AP environmental science teacher Jared McEntyre, said, “Go back and look at what you did well and what you didn't do well on, find the places where you need to improve and just study what you need to study. Don’t study what you don't need to study. There's not enough time. Maybe a quick little jaunt down memory lane to see what it was, refresh your memory but spend the most time on the stuff that you need to study. Looking at figures and diagrams because [they’re] really helpful and humans are visual learners, all of them. Repetition is gonna be good. Key vocabulary is phenomenal. Make sure you do your note cards by hand, not using other technologies that are out there, because it's good research, showing that when you do it by hand, this goes to your brain better than if you do it on Quizlet.” Photo by: Roya Bizhang](https://thecougarpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/10-1-1200x800.jpg)
