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Teaching and Learning
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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Prizmah Thought Leadership, Professional Leadership, School Policies and Procedures, Teaching and Learning
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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Research, Teaching and Learning
Over the last few years, our team at Rosov Consulting has helped day schools use survey data to benchmark themselves against other Jewish schools. I’m going to share a few examples. In each case, schools either joined a...
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Teaching and Learning
Close your eyes and think of a problem you have at your school or organization. Now imagine a team of people coming together to discuss the problem, dissecting it from all angles, then working together to create a solution...
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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
Imagine receiving a letter from your younger self, reminding you of your day school experiences, your dreams and aspirations for the future, and the connections that shaped your life while reinforcing your deep-rooted Jewish...
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Teaching and Learning
In this issue we highlight ways in which many great educators are engaged in deeply considering how to awaken our students, connect them personally and deeply with their tradition and teach skills that will enable them to own...
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Teaching and Learning
Embodied learning is the belief and knowledge that our bodies are capable of making sense of all manner of information, and that relying only on the power of the brain to process information effectively reduces our ability to...
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Teaching and Learning
My work often leads me to conversations loaded with “big questions.” When asking people to think about times they felt connected to God or something bigger than themselves—to recall a spiritual moment—I have found that more...
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Teaching and Learning
How should we as educators approach teaching Israeli current events in the classroom? How can we authentically model nuance and balance when we may have strong feelings about the issues we are teaching about?
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Teaching and Learning
Communities rely on their education systems to induct students into their literacy practices; they want children to read texts in certain ways and hope their schools will teach them to do so. This includes decoding skills as...