Five Questions for Your Seder Table
Since the start of Corona, each week I am lucky enough to teach my dear AMIT students, and I am learning as much as I am teaching.
AMIT President Audrey Axelrod Trachtman On i24 News
AMIT President Audrey Axelrod Trachtman recently appeared on an i24 News broadcast and spoke about the innovative 21st-century educational approach AMIT has implemented throughout our 104 schools in Israel. In partnership with the American Zionist Movement, the i24 News broadcast featured several Zionist organizations.
Coming Out of Corona
Naomi Baum, Ph.D recently led a virtual program for AMIT on how to cope during these challenging times. We’re pleased to share her recent blog that we hope you’ll find helpful during this difficult period.
Corona and Hakarat Ha’Tov: The Lifelong Lesson of Embracing Holocaust Survivors
By Dr. Amnon Eldar
During the counting of the Omer, a period in which we work on ourselves and strive to improve our interpersonal skills and care for others, we would like to focus on hakarat ha’tov, being thankful for all that we have been blessed. The mourning of Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students, who treated each other with disrespect, reminds us of the words of their teacher, “Love your neighbor as yourself. This is an important principle in the Torah.” Loving and caring for others teaches us that gratitude is a basic trait of utmost importance that should be carried out for all of our lives.
Teaching in the Time of Corona
How are members of the AMIT family coping with Corona Virus? Find out Pesha Fischer’s take on Teaching in the Time of Corona.
AMIT Responds to Students’ Needs During COVID-19
As many of you are aware, Israel is on semi-lockdown and has closed all schools due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this swift and necessary national measure, AMIT has also responded quickly to help our children keep learning uninterrupted by setting up online distance learning so they can continue their studies in the safety of their homes.
AMIT Director General Amnon Eldar Addresses the Closure of Israel’s Schools and Tells Principals: “A Crisis is Also an Opportunity”
In a swift letter to the AMIT network’s principals, AMIT Director General Amnon Eldar, sent a message of strength and inspiration to his “troops,” the educators who care every day for the more than 37,000 children in AMIT network.
Eldar explains how they are preparing for students to continue learning in the face of what is hoped to be temporary school closures as he reminds everyone of their obligation to personal responsibility to help thwart the spread of the coronavirus.
AMIT in The Jerusalem Post!
AMIT President Audrey Axelrod Trachtman recently spoke to The Jerusalem Post in a wide-ranging interview where she shared AMIT’s impact on its more than 37,000 students, the educational landscape in Israel, and what the network is doing every day to remain in the vanguard of modern Jewish education. Please read this terrific article in The Jerusalem Post and learn more about AMIT’s storied past, impressive present, and exciting future.
Successful Use of Building Design to Improve Learning
by Russell Jay Hendel
This article describes the innovations in use of space and building design of the AMIT religious network of schools in Israel. It is important to emphasize that space-design by itself will not accomplish pedagogic improvement; space-design is at most supportive to innovative pedagogy. Once we define our concept of learning, we can explore how spatial redesign supports and enhances it.
Want Good Teachers? Turn Them Into Entrepreneurs
The Jerusalem Post, by Dr. Amnon Eldar, director general of AMIT
More than 7,000 teachers left the education system in 2017 – a higher number than ever before – according to recently published data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is not a one-time event but a phenomenon. An increase in teacher attrition has been recorded for five consecutive years, and according to the CBS, the teachers who leave actually have higher statistical rankings (matriculation and psychometric scores) than the remaining teachers.