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...
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...
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 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 ExcellenceGreek philosopher Aristotle once said, “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution...
Getting those 10,000 Hours Malcom Gladwell, in his book Outliers: The Story of Success, examines different types of successful people in an attempt to explain how exactly these people ...
Bringing Jewish Thanksgiving to Our Families In the early 1990’s, 700 nuns, aged 75 to 102, agreed to share their records as part of a study related to Alzheimer’s. Previously, in 1930, when these nuns w...
Cultivating Innovation through Play, Purpose, and Passion One of the buzzwords associated with 21st century education is “innovation.” We need to be “innovative” in our teaching in order for our students to be innov...
Allowing Space to Learn through Failure Teachers, administrators, and parents all want one thing: to ensure our students are safe, happy, and successful. We want this so badly that we often do ever...
Finding the Joy in a Dark Month The Jewish calendar can be funny sometimes. During the month of Tishrei (which almost exactly lined up with October this year), we had the holidays of Rosh H...
Making the Most of a Snowy Situation With the first official snow day behind us, you might already be planning for the next one (it is Colorado, after all). If you’re looking for some ideas as t...
Learning about Community from the Holiday of Sukkot We at Einstein Academy love fall. We love the crisp mornings and pumpkin spice everything. We love the changing colors and how different those Colorado color...
Embracing Fall and a Chance for New Beginnings Monday, September 23 marked the first day of fall. While we in Colorado may still be experiencing summer-like temperatures in the middle of the day, those da...
The Power of Elul: Adding Reflection to Our Lives School has started, and we can begin to feel a shift in the weather (some days)...which can mean only one thing: the Jewish holiday season is upon us. Before...
