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Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
Covid has brought many opportunities and challenges to Jewish day schools. We were able to stay open, for the most part, during Covid, and this has led to a new influx of students. The problem for the Hebrew departments in...
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Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
With Covid not yet behind us but with some sense of managed normalcy, I have returned to visiting day schools across North America. While each individual school, community and region differs in approach, I am learning from...
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School Policies and Procedures
A year ago, none of us dreamed that we’d be back having the same conversations again one year later. How can we do this season of Yom Hashoah, Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut in our day schools as well as we always do, when...
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School Policies and Procedures
As we again approach the holiday of Purim, all I can think about is Venahafoch hu , it was turned upside down. Last Purim at Hillel Day School and around Detroit the entire community was gathering together joyfully to...
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Professional Leadership, Governance, School Policies and Procedures
In a recent episode of the podcast On Point , Margaret Heffernan speaks about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future . The book takes the idea of uncertainty head-on, and, given our current reality, it couldn...
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Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
With a desire for both continuity and creativity amidst the current backdrop of uncertainty, Jewish early childhood educators and leaders have encountered extraordinary “silver linings” in their work with children and...
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Enrollment, School Policies and Procedures
Every year at SAR High School, we choose a theme for the year, which shapes programming and informal learning that takes place all year long, including our Beit Midrash program curriculum, sessions at shabbatonim and even...
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Enrollment, School Policies and Procedures
By Lisa Feingold, Susan J. Levine, Rachel Zivic When Covid-19 fully reared its ugly head in March, we wondered if our small Jewish day school, Kellman Brown Academy, would even survive. With a student body of 116 children...
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Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
As we reach the seven-month mark of the Covid-19 shutdown, schools have been forced to think creatively. Looking at the fundamental elements of minyanim in school, there are a variety of ways to educate, inspire and help our...