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HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning
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...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning
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...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning
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...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning
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...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning
When graduates of Moriah College are asked to reflect on their most meaningful experience in their study of Jewish history, one answer is predominant: Hans Kimmel. This 10th grade roots project is steeped in the pedagogical...
KC Resource
Prizmah Thought Leadership, Professional Leadership, Research, Teaching and Learning
The Jewish school is positioned at the nexus of the individual, the family and the community, bringing to light the opportunities and challenges of being a committed Jew in the modern world. The school can become a center for...
HaYidion Article
Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning
KC Resource
Teaching and Learning, Human Resources, Enrollment
In this session Ms. McKinney-Baldon, a former Jewish day school teacher, shared her story of growing up in Milwaukee, and outlined strategies for Jewish educators to increase belonging for Jews of color and diverse Jewish...
HaYidion Article
Teaching and Learning, School Policies and Procedures
When our campuses closed due to Covid-19, the cast of Fiddler on the Roof was only weeks into rehearsals. Most schools had canceled their spring performances, but our cast was determined. The students and show leaders met...