AMIT Stories

Breaking Down the Walls

Breaking Down the Walls

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.

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Back to School Blues

5 Strategies For Kids Anxious About Going Back to School

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.

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The Secret to AMIT’s Success? Shared Leadership

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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The Jerusalem Post: Farewell, Bagrut System?

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.

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