Mayberg Foundation grantee clients featured in eJewish Philanthropy

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Mayberg Foundation grantee clients featured in eJewish Philanthropy

Mayberg Foundation grantee clients Rabbi Mitch Malkus (head of school at Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School) and Lianne Heller (executive director of Sulam) were recently published in eJewish Philanthropy.

Their co-authored article, “Designing exceptional learning for all students: A collaborative approach,” maintains, “Research has shown that when students have agency in their own learning they become independent, resourceful, and motivated lifelong learners and critical thinkers who ultimately become expert citizens.”

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Manette Mayberg published in eJP: "The invaluable role of a Jewish educator: A funder’s perspective"

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Manette Mayberg published in eJP: "The invaluable role of a Jewish educator: A funder’s perspective"

Mayberg Foundation Trustee Manette Mayberg was recently published in eJP. Her article, “The invaluable role of a Jewish educator: A funder’s perspective,” maintains that the most important resource in Jewish education is the educator. “The long-term goals of Jewish education,” she writes, “are to shape a committed, thoughtful, ethical generation of Jews.”

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Rachel Mohl Abraham's "Enabling Student Agency" published in Jewish Educational Leadership

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Rachel Mohl Abraham's "Enabling Student Agency" published in Jewish Educational Leadership

Rachel Mohl Abrahams’s piece, "Enabling Student Agency," was recently published in The Lookstein Center's Jewish Educational Leadership.

In the article, she highlights a few day schools that created opportunities for student independence during the pandemic. She calls on schools to continue to find ways to give students agency over their learning as we move forward.

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With Mayberg Foundation Support, JTS Re-launches Jewish Day School Standards Program

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With Mayberg Foundation Support, JTS Re-launches Jewish Day School Standards Program

“We are pleased to join with other foundations dedicated to excellence in Jewish education by supporting the work of Jewish Day School Standards and Benchmarks,” said Mayberg Foundation Executive Director Todd Sukol upon the announcement of JTS’s relaunching of its program.

“The program’s outcomes align closely with the ultimate goals of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge (JEIC), which we launched almost a decade ago to catalyze radical improvement in Jewish day schools. The Standards and Benchmarks team has supported teachers in an important shift in instruction with a focus on Jewish texts' relevance to the individual learner,” he continued.

“We see this as a crucial component of effective day school education that will have lasting impact on each child and, ultimately, the Jewish people.”

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Prizmah's HaYidion Highlights JEIC's Call For Collaboration to Better Serve Day Schools

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Prizmah's HaYidion Highlights JEIC's Call For Collaboration to Better Serve Day Schools

Prizmah’s HaYidion Fall 2020 edition highlighted an article written by managing director of the Jewish Education Innovation Challenge, Sharon Freundel, about how collaborating through professional learning communities can better serve Jewish day schools.

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JEIC's Listening Booths Report Surfaces Stakeholders' Dreams for Day Schools

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The Jewish Education Innovation Challenge’s Listening Booths Initiative seized the opportunity to hear from many diverse voices in the Jewish day school (JDS) field by partnering with Prizmah to host “Listening Booths” at their bi-annual conference in March 2019.

They wondered what JDS stakeholders would say are their dreams, visions, and wishes for Jewish education. And they wondered how those responses might help JDSs achieve the optimal results of students internalizing Jewish values that can help them develop enduring Jewish identities and connections to Jewish belief and practice.

JEIC invited conference attendees to participate in a 20-minute recorded interview in which they shared their opinions and ideas confidentially. Some of what they heard validated what many in the field already believe to be true. Other ideas were somewhat surprising with a few that were truly out-of-the-box.

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Eight major themes emerged in this research, which was highlighted in the Fall 2019 issue of HaYidion: The Prizmah Journal in an article entitled “Listening to Day School Dreams” by JEIC Managing Director Sharon Freundel. Additional compelling ideas to radically improve Jewish day schools that were shared in the Listening Booths will be highlighted in a special series on the Prizmah blog.

Out of the Listening Booths research emanates good news and an opportunity to be fearless. The good news is that there are a great number of impassioned, creative JDS stakeholders who are committed to improving Jewish education and creating the strongest and most enduring future for the Jewish people. These stakeholders have the ideas, and they are ready to execute them. The opportunity to be fearless means stakeholders in the field need to be ready to jump into action, collaborating, taking risks, innovating and inviting others (including funders) to be a part of the solutions.

Access the complete report, What We Heard in the Listening Booths: Summary of findings from the JEIC Interviews at PrizmahCJDS’s 2019 Conference, The Greenberg Team, 2019.

2019 National Jewish Retreat Highlights JEIC's Professional Team and Unique Professional Development Collaboration

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2019 National Jewish Retreat Highlights JEIC's Professional Team and Unique Professional Development Collaboration

Sharon Freundel, JEIC Managing Drector, and Rabbi Shmuel Feld, JEIC Founding Director, were highlighted as featured presenters at The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute’s (JLI) 2019 National Jewish Retreat in Washington, D.C., August 13-18, 2019, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park.

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