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War in Israel | School Resource Hub
As you prepare to speak with your faculty, students and community about violence in Israel, Prizmah has curated a list of resources to help students process tragedy when terrorism occurs and classroom resources about Israel...
Heads of School gathered for the second of three sessions in Prizmah's Collaborating through Controversy series. They learned ways to deepen their schools' cultures of belonging through working together with their board...
Much has been said about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the lives of adolescents. At Gann Academy, a pluralistic high school in Waltham, Massachusetts, as we have navigated this experience as a community, one of our...
I want to make a bold claim: Diversity isn’t something you have, it’s something you do. When we do diversity effectively, we teach our children to find meaning in their own experiences and in the experiences of others. There...
Being a teacher is hard. Being a new teacher is incredibly hard. On the days when it is hardest—and thank God the hardest days seem to come less frequently in my third year teaching than they did in the first—a line from a...
Prizmah is excited to offer the Prizmah Teen Mental Health Club Playbook, a resource that will walk you through the process of starting your own student-led mental health awareness club at your Jewish day school. These...
The concept of organizational memory often challenges a student activities department. Student life and co-curricular programming serve as the vehicles that create student memories and school traditions. Current students and...
At the end of each academic year, the graduating senior class at Rochelle Zell Jewish High School in Deerfield, Illinois, selects a quote that serves as the cornerstone for the graduation ceremony and speeches for that year...
As eighth graders in their finest conclude their graduation, music comes on, and they rush to hand their diplomas to family and mount the risers that have held so many graduates before them. “Shir Yisraeli” blasts from the...
As a doctoral student at Brandeis, Deborah and her classmates were encouraged to design “readings courses” around topics of interest that weren’t otherwise available in the curriculum. As is sometimes the case, the one...