A schoolwide focus on cultivating traits like self-discipline, courage, and perseverance helps students meet high expectations.
When a Jewish person expresses anti-Jewish ideas, is that antisemitism? It might sound odd, but yes.
Professor Sonja Lyubomirsky is a leading social psychologist and researcher into happiness and author of The Myths of Happiness and The How of Happiness.
This TED talks features Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi as he asks, "What makes a life worth living?" Noting that money cannot make us happy, he looks to those who find pleasure and lasting satisfaction in activities that bring about a state of "flow."
Congregation Kol Ami White Plains, NY. Mesorah (tradition) is a choice-based model for 7th-12th graders that includes CORE learning and hands-on, experiential, project-based learning electives.
Devash is a weekly parashah magazine that makes learning Torah sweet!
Devash is a weekly parashah magazine that makes learning Torah sweet!
Temple Adat Elohim, Thousand Oaks, CA. Families come together twice a month, once to experience Shabbat as a B’Yachad community and another time to help heal the world by participating in Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) projects
Temple Emanuel of the Pascack Valley (TEPV), Woodcliff Lake, NJ. This online, opt-in, home-based learning model for 7th-9th graders is a partnership with JETS Israel (Jerusalem EdTech Solutions).
Temple Israel Center White Plains, NY. This model encourages full-time educators to go beyond the classroom by engaging learners at the synagogue, in their homes, as well as, in the community.