JEIC is seeing more and more courageous, innovative educators making strides towards transforming schools. Steve Freedman, the head of school at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, is an example of this type of new leader.  

We don’t need to compare our students to each other. We need to compare them to themselves. If everyone has mastered the material, has internalized and connected with it and can take it home with them, then everyone succeeds.

Parents send their children to Jewish day schools in order to instill in them a strong Jewish identity. The theory is that, through the teaching of Jewish subjects, they will achieve an understanding of Jewish tradition, an internalization of Jewish values and a sense of Jewish pride. For decades, we have all assumed that this works. But what if there’s a better way?

Jewish Education Innovation Challenge announced today a new initiative it will launch with the help of three new partners. The new initiative represents the third phase of JEIC’s mission to revolutionize the Jewish day school education system, reigniting a passion for Jewish learning in the next generation.