Tag: Jewish Schools & Educational Services

Did you know, adult learning is not only “chicken soup for your soul,” it’s also good for your physical and mental health?!?

This year, CAJE has launched the CAJE-Hebrew at the Center Hebrew Initiative to strengthen Hebrew language instruction in Miami’s Jewish day schools.

On November 28, a broad range of community organizations and Jewish denominations met for the BeWell - Youth Mental Health Convening gathering...

Antisemitism is on the rise and can never be ignored. We remain firm in our belief that the best way to combat these troubling trends is through education. CAJE and Federation partner with OpenDor Media to bring their content to our Jewish schools, our community, and to you, to learn from and to share with others.

It’s no secret that antisemitism is on the rise, both nationally and worldwide. As Yair Rosenberg recently wrote in his blog Deep Shtetl, “Every single year since the FBI began recording hate-crime statistics, Jews have been the target of more anti-religious attacks in the U.S. than all other religious groups combined.”

Our Early Childhood Education Directors came together IRL (In Real Life) for the first time in years as part of the Jewish Early Childhood Professional Network (JECPN) that CAJE conducts. And this milestone post-Covid called for a gathering unlike any previously...

Three years ago the Miami Jewish community embarked on the JRS pilot program as a way of addressing how we can impact families of young children to connect and stay connected to the Jewish community.

For Jews, 13 is a very lucky number indeed — the number associated with becoming a Bar Mitzvah! CAJE is proud to report that the 2022-2023 Miami Jewish Day School Robotics program is back and better than ever with 13 schools joining our cohort this year!

Wait, what does this mean? Aren’t teachers in schools to teach and students in schools to learn? Actually, no. If schools are to meet the needs of all children, then it is everyone’s job, including the adults, to learn.

In the coming school year, every (funded) Jewish day school in Miami-Dade County have agreed to put up placards or signs in private areas within their middle and high schools that lists a dedicated phone number that teens can call or text for anonymous and confidential assistance.

The best complement I think I’ve ever heard about a teacher was when one of their students said: “It doesn’t matter to me what she’s teaching -- the biology of worms, the history of clouds, or the phone book -- I would still take her class, because I know that she would make it completely fascinating.”

After a two-year hiatus, CAJE has brought back its 4th Annual Miami Jewish Day School Robotics Festival! In mid-May, 150 students from 8 schools gathered at Scheck Hillel Community School to compete in various challenges and showcase what they’ve learned throughout the year.

If you’ve been reading our previous articles this year, you are well aware of the Jewish teacher shortage, both in the day school and early childhood education sectors. The same is true in the congregational education (CE) sector, commonly known as religious school, Hebrew school, Sunday school, among other names.

"Kol Yisrael Arevim Ze La Zeh – All of Israel is Responsible for One Another" You’ve probably heard this saying before, maybe even learned it as a song in school. But what does it really mean when we say that all Jews are responsible for one another? It means that all Jews have made this unspoken commitment to something larger than ourselves.

How can we build a Marshall Plan for Jewish education writ large so that we do not destroy the one factor that has enabled our people to thrive in Diaspora life over centuries of difficulties and joys?

The Eleanor Meyerhoff Katz z”l Teacher Initiative Awards are grants provided to exceptional Jewish day school teachers to implement new and creative classroom initiatives. Funded by the Eleanor M. and Herbert D. Katz Foundation and administered by the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education (CAJE), a subsidiary agency of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, the Katz Teacher Initiative Awards are now in their 7th year.

Teachers play an essential role in student development in two central ways: first, they broaden and deepen student knowledge; second, they promote the skills students need to become purposeful and motivated, resourceful and knowledgeable, strategic and goal-directed—what Universal Design for Learning (UDL) calls “Expert Learners.”

With the influx of new families moving down from the Northeast in particular, Miami Jewish day schools are scrambling to find teachers to fill open positions. But our cost of living in the Greater Miami area coupled with steeply increasing prices for houses in safe neighborhoods has made it difficult to attract new teachers.