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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...
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...
By Lianne Forman As an educator, you are on the “front lines” and act as one of the most critical sources of connection and emotional support for your students. School staff are charged with nurturing relationships with...
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...
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...
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...
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...
So I am supposed to teach the students in front of me, in my physical room, for six hours in my mask and behind a screen, and also, concurrently, on Zoom, and also the ones in other time zones and also make an asynchronous...
Upside down. That’s how our world feels now. When so many of us left our school buildings in March, it is was Purim, the joyous holiday when all the bad was turned on its head and became good, when the hidden hand of G-d...