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Walk in to just about any Jewish day school or yeshiva, and you are bound to smile. Whether it is the colorful artwork on the wall, the enthusiastic voices singing in Hebrew, the sparkle in the eyes of teachers greeting their...
When I first encountered this quotation, by the author and social activist bell hooks, I was stopped in my tracks: “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it’s to imagine what is possible.”
A lab school (short for laboratory school) is a space designed to ideate, explore and test new educational models and methods, incubating new ideas and developing teachers in a live setting. The original one was founded by...
The first year of the Jewish day school headship is a challenging and pivotal moment in a leader's career, and supporting new heads of school as they transition into new schools and communities is essential for the field...
Last year, faced with a slowly dissolving administrative team in my first year as a head of school, a very wise, successful and invested friend of our school sent me an email to give me strength and support. An excerpt reads...
How do students internalize and act out gender narratives in their relationships to their school, to different subjects, to their teachers and other students? How do teachers sometimes reinforce gender roles in the classroom...
Now that Covid is waning and classrooms feel close to the old normal, what have we learned from two years of online and hybrid pedagogy? Despite the challenges and drawbacks, are there things that remote learning enabled that...
In a traditional Jewish day school model, an excellent Jewish education is the assumed value proposition; however, if families don’t value the Jewish experience, focus must be placed on other selling points to enhance the...
A few years ago, I attended a conference at a local non-Jewish independent school. On the walls of each classroom, I noticed large posted signs that included language about student’s rights and privileges on the wall. The...
How can we retain mid-career teachers amid historic shifts in the educational labor market? When Marc, a mid-career teacher with a full slate of Judaic and general studies classes, was offered an enticing job working at a...