{"id":3413,"date":"2025-08-08T10:59:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:00:35","slug":"disrupted-episode-7-with-rana-akkad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/featured\/disrupted-episode-7-with-rana-akkad\/","title":{"rendered":"DisruptEd Episode 7 with Rana Akkad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to the seventh episode of DisruptEd, offering a look into the future of education, in conversations with experts discussing research and real-world applications. The podcast, produced by Citizens School explores how breakthroughs in learning and teaching are shaping the way we prepare learners for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DisruptEd is hosted by Dr. Adil Alzarooni, a serial entrepreneur, lifelong learner, and founder of Citizens School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode, Dr. Adil speaks with Rana Akkad, Founder of Jad\u2019s Inclusion. In a powerful conversation about the unseen challenges families of children with special needs face daily \u2014 from navigating diagnoses to everyday outings. Rana questions the assumption that mainstreaming equals inclusion, sharing the reality that without personalised support, \u201csometimes it\u2019s just the most expensive lunchbox.\u201d True inclusion, she explains, requires trained mentors, Individualised Education Plans (IEPs), and environments where every child can meaningfully participate \u2014 even if only for a few hours a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DisruptEd Podcast Ep 007 Rana Akkad\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9o5iRtvU06o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the seventh episode of DisruptEd, offering a look into the future of education, in conversations with experts discussing research and real-world applications. The podcast, produced by Citizens School explores how breakthroughs in learning and teaching are shaping the way we prepare learners for the future. DisruptEd is hosted by Dr. Adil Alzarooni, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-podcast"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/E7-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/E7-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"citizensschool","author_link":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/author\/citizensschool\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizens.me\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}