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While looking into various graduate school options, I learned a lot about the difference between PhD and EdD programs, including the difference between a producer and a consumer when it comes to educational goals. EdD...
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Assignments that Count: Goals and Assessment of Summer Work
Summer work In the Jewish high school I attended, each year there was one book assigned for our summer homework. Some of us would read it, some relied on Cliffs Notes, and others would try to wing it. Now that I have become a...
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Build Them, Don’t Buy Them: Cultivating Excellence in Novice Teachers
As school leaders, one of our primary responsibilities is making sure we have well-trained, talented teachers in our classrooms. The challenge of finding quality teachers, especially for school leaders in areas that don’t...
A teacher pipeline issue is emerging, not only in the world at large, but in the yeshiva and Jewish day school field. School and field leaders are struggling with recruiting, training and retaining talented educators. As a...
At Prizmah’s Head of School Retreat earlier this spring, consistent with all we have heard since the pandemic, school leaders unanimously voiced their most pressing need: “More teachers,” we heard from schools across North...
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Bringing Talmud Study to Life: Inspiration, Authenticity and Torah Lishmah
At the Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland, our annual high school retreat is one of the highlights of the school year. In addition to the community building that comes through bonding and fun activities, spending an extended...
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Implementing Design Thinking in Partnership with a University
In 2015, our school wanted to breathe new life into our traditional curriculum. With a change in leadership came new expertise, first in project-based learning (PBL) and second in design thinking, methods which gave birth to...
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