Summer is Here...Did you Notice?While the solstice is still about a month away, Memorial Day (which falls this weekend, in case you haven’t looked at a calendar for a while) marks the unoff...
A Small School is Just What the Doctor Ordered We’ve all heard the saying that big ships take time to turn around. It’s often used a metaphor to discuss how hard change can be, and how painfully slow it i...
Fighting the Virus with What We KnowWe’ve read all of the articles. We’ve read all of the pieces that talk about the impact that the coronavirus epidemic is having on student learning and on th...
Fostering Grit through Passion and Perseverance The past many weeks have required much of us. It’s required an adjustment to a “new normal” in that we aren’t at schools and workplaces, not going to playgro...
Mission: Possible - #DoingThePossibleWe at Einstein Academy believe in the power and the potential of the individual and the community. We believe that students, no matter the age, are capable a...
Small Acts of Kindness and the Force of PossibilityLord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once said, “Passover is the story of the defeat of probability by the force of possibility. It defines what it is to be a Jew: a li...
Preparing for the Unknown: The Basis for Entrepreneurial Education President Trump recently announced that the social distancing guidelines he put in place a few weeks ago are being extended through at least April 30. Here i...
Remember to Breathe: The Importance of Self-Care On a plane during the safety information, you are always told that, in the event of an emergency, you should place your air-mask on your face first and then ...
Teaching is Hard...You Can Do It! On the morning of Monday, March 16, Shonda Rimes (an American television producer, writer, and author), posted this on Twitter: “Been homeschooling a 6-year ...
Kids and Coronavirus: Navigating the Next Few Weeks As virtually every school in the Denver metro area closed yesterday, parents around Colorado started to wonder the same thing as parents in other parts of th...
Pushing the Boundaries: What Does It Mean to be a Pioneer? As we have learned, getting new families involved in a brand new school is different from getting them involved in an existing school. We have no school-spec...
Defining Excellence: For Today and the Future As we’ve been discussing for the last few weeks, Einstein Academy was created to be an excellent school; so far we have looked at what that means in the area...
Location, Location, Location: What’s in a Space? When we began this journey months and months ago, one of the first questions people asked us was where the school would be located. Great question, and we ar...
Defining Excellence: For Community As we’ve been discussing for the last few weeks, Einstein Academy was created to be an excellent school; so far we have looked at what that means in the area...
Defining Excellence: For Families Einstein Academy was created to be an excellent school; last week we looked at what that meant in the area of for kids. This week we turn our attention to fa...
Defining Excellence: For Kids In our previous blog post, we took a look at what it means to define excellence and work towards that excellence with thought and intention, and we continue ...
Defining ExcellenceGreek philosopher Aristotle once said, “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution...
What’s Jewish About Einstein Academy? Winston Churchill once said, “Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the mo...
The Importance of Ongoing Mentoring for Teachers In Atul Gawande’s The New Yorker piece about the importance of mentors, he, a surgeon, discusses the benefits he received from mentoring, wondering why the i...
What's Jewish About Differentiation?There have been over a dozen studies over the last 20 years that have resulted in the groundbreaking discovery that when students are engaged, they learn mor...
