The AMIT network and Ra’anana municipality have joined forces with an organization called she codes to offer software development courses to young women free of charge during the course of this school year.
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by Adina Soclof, MS. CCC-SLP
Every parent wants to see their child succeed in school, but it can be a struggle for some. But don’t worry, there are ways to help your child overcome difficulties. Here’s a few tips to get you started.
Hundreds of students from AMIT Hammer in Rehovot turned their school into a “chesed factory” ahead of Rosh Hashanah, raising funds to buy holiday supplies for 250 needy families in their community.
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by David Brummer
The start of the new school year can be a time of great anticipation and also trepidation for both parents and students. I do not have children myself, but I understand that the Israeli educational system can be a little uneven. AMIT, an educational net work consisting of 110 schools and 45,000 students across the country — religious and secular — claims that it will provide an educational revolution that will facilitate change in the classroom.
AMIT Menorat HaMaor, a special school catering to Haredi boys who chose not to pursue full-time yeshiva studies, achieved the highest matriculation rate out of 16 similar Haredi high schools, according to data recently released by the Education Ministry.
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by Adina Soclof, MS. CCC-SLP
Summer is coming to an end. The stores are stocked with fresh school supplies and that back to school excitement is in the air. But there are many children who aren’t so excited. The complaints, the stomachaches, and the sad faces are starting up again.
In this blog, we explore a key ingredient to AMIT’s pedagogic success: shared leadership, which refers to distributing leadership in a shared culture. AMIT accomplishes this shared leadership through the methods developed at its GOGYA teacher-training center.
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More than 34,000 AMIT students across Israel kicked off the new school year this week, with some coming back to discover modernized classrooms, new teachers and principals, and some even starting fresh at an entirely new school.
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By Amnon Eldar, director general of the AMIT network
The Education Ministry recently published its various measures for evaluating schools in Israel and it is to be commended for its policy of transparency. However, in 2018, Israeli society’s view of bagrut (matriculation exam) scores should be the subject of in-depth discussion.
Four years ago, Sara Tancman experienced something no woman should ever have to go through.
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