Faith schools – so their opponents argue – are divisive, retrograde, narrow, insular, hostile to science and the critical mind, unable to teach their pupils tolerance, and fundamentally opposed to [...]
The United States, Russia, and China have all landed spacecrafts on the moon. Soon humanity will add a fourth country to that list: Israel. On February 21 (subject to change), SpaceIL is [...]
In 1997, The AVI CHAI Foundation began sponsoring day school leaders to attend one of two week-long summer institutes at The Principals Center, a division of the Harvard Graduate School [...]
This article was initially published on BetterLesson. You can view the original article here. An interview of Rabbi David Saltzman As a former teacher and now as an instructional coach [...]
Lately, I’ve been spending a good amount of time ruminating on the idea of experiential education as a whole, and how we as Jewish educators have largely drunk the proverbial [...]
Jewish law regarding health and medicine has always mandated following what the medical establishment and majority of doctors believe. The ultimate measure of a leader is not where he or [...]
by Wendy Grinberg - During the recent “Striving for Shlemut” convening, I had an opportunity to learn from educators who were part of the Fellowship in Educating for Applied Jewish Wisdom. [...]
One of the most valuable things that your students may contribute to the classroom and to their own education, are questions. While education is often thought of as the pursuit [...]
This is part two in a three-part blog series from The iCenter for Israel Education, sharing its approach to working closely with day schools and camps to create effective Israel education [...]
Many of us are excited when we learn about a new piece of technology that we can use in the classroom. The potential for new learning models is vast, and [...]
by Jessica Green - As educators working to engage teens in meaningful Jewish experiences, all of us in the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Funder Collaborative know the facts surrounding teen angst and concerns about young [...]
In November, I wrote a piece posted [on the Avi Chai Foundation Blog] about the wide chasm that often exists between research and practice. In that post I promised additional posts related [...]
