It has been an exciting first three weeks of school for me. Students are happy, parents are happy, teachers are happy and all this happiness is centered around the creation of excellent Jewish education and strong community! Our numbers are up from last year. This year we have students enrolled in 13 grades (K-12th) and I am still getting phone calls asking about joining our program. The number of students in our program is exciting because it means that we are touching many students and their families lives but the real excitement for me is walking into our classrooms and watching the dynamic learning happening. In every classroom I walk into, and I try to speak a few minutes in each classroom every day, I see students engaged in the learning process whether it is our 2nd graders playing a flashcard matching game or 6th graders studying a piece of Talmud about how we should treat our friends and those we don’t like, or 8th graders discussing the meaning of their B’nai Mitzvah projects as a basis for their study on Mitzvah Heroes, or 10th graders watching “The Lunch Date” as a trigger for a discussion on assumptions we make when we first meet people who are different then us. The bottom line is there is really exciting learning happening in every direction. If this is the first three weeks, I can’t wait to see the rest of the year.
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