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HaYidion Article
Professional Leadership, Enrollment, School Policies and Procedures
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November 16, 2020
The Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School opened our virtual school doors on March 15, just three school days after the Ontario government closed all public schools for the foreseeable future. This began a journey that saw...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
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November 16, 2020
There are concrete strategies and supports for diverse learners than can be translated into support for online learning, a vital necessity for virtual and home schooling. There are four key areas of focus, all anchored in the...
HaYidion Article
School Policies and Procedures
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November 16, 2020
There is widespread consensus that this year every school’s primary focus will be on health. We have all gotten a crash course in immunology and epidemiology, and have spent many hours and significant financial investment to...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
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November 16, 2020
Almost subconsciously, I signed off many of our weekly edtech professionals check- in calls quoting Elroy Jetson being hoisted by his suspenders after a playdate at the end of his school day taught by a robot in his...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
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November 16, 2020
This past spring, as our living rooms turned into classrooms, we shifted our teaching, learning new technologies such as Trello boards and Kahoot and creating Bitmoji classrooms to engage our students. One question we all...
HaYidion Article
School Policies and Procedures, Teaching and Learning
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November 16, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has inspired our pluralistic school to place a higher priority on moral education than ever before. While it isn’t new to us to attend to the social and emotional needs of our students and to their...
HaYidion Article
Research, Professional Leadership, School Policies and Procedures
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November 16, 2020
Thanks to the ubiquity of high-quality cellphone cameras, we’ve all become aware of how different an object is when viewed through a wide-angle lens compared to a telephoto lens. We can play with such differences ourselves...