CAJE Blog

This past Sunday, Miami Diller Teen Fellows Cohort 6 celebrated their graduation from the program after 12 months as Fellows. During this beautiful evening, the teens highlighted their accomplishments, shared their plans for their impact projects that they will be completing in the Miami community over the next several months, screened a video slideshow of memories from the last 15 months, were presented with graduation certificates, and shared reflections on their time in the Fellowship program.

Early Childhood Education Directors from 15 of our early childhood programs in Miami Dade County convened their first Jewish Early Childhood Network (JECN) meeting of 2019-2020 this week. How fitting that at the start of this new school year, the gathering’s theme was “New Beginnings.”

The Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE) is very sorry to announce the loss of Alexander (Sandy) Andron, a past CAJE executive staff member who oversaw Teen Programming, including the Judaica High School, and was a key staff member of the Leo Martin March of the Living.

The Jewish Resource Specialist (JRS) Initiative has officially started with the beginning of this new school year. A JRS is a teacher or staff member of an Early Childhood Education (ECE) program who works additional hours a week in two areas: deepening the Jewish engagement of families and deepening the Jewish learning in the EE.

“Worry is a waste of your time and diminishes your health/wellbeing. As human beings, we should do whatever we have in our power to do to make the situation better. Then when we can’t do anything else, we stop and accept that the rest is up to the Holy One.

CAJE continues to partner with the AviChai Foundation to introduce teachers and administrators to the newest research-based strategies enabling them to improve the quality of teaching and learning in their schools.

Professional Development happens on all levels at CAJE  click here to see some photos from our dynamic day!

Jennifer Ohana, an English teacher at Hebrew Academy RASG, won the Eleanor Meyerhoff Katz z”l Teacher Initiative Award from the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education. She will use the grant to implement a project-based learning initiative for eighth-grade students entitled, Renewable Resources to Renew Lives.