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Building Grit in our Kids

At Einstein Academy, we focus on four core values: kindness, empathy, responsibility, and grit. Throughout the year, we have spent time...

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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,...

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Small Acts of Kindness and the Force of Possibility

Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once said, “Passover is the story of the defeat of probability by the force of possibility. It defines what it...

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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...

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The SuperPower of Kindness

In an episode of the sitcom Friends, two of the characters have a debate based on the theories of philosopher Immanuel Kant about whether...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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A School for Anyone, Not Everyone

When we talk about our reasons for starting Einstein Academy, we always, inevitably, discuss our own school experiences and how they’ve...

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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...

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Putting a Feeling Into Words

Think about the feeling you had the first time you held your child...or when you summited that fourteener...or when you took a bite of a...

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The Marvelous Individual

We love back to school pictures that flood social media around this time of year. We love seeing the creative signs kids are holding and...

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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...

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Getting Your Kids to Talk After School

Now that the school year has begun, parents everywhere are grappling with the same question: “How do I get my kids talking about their...

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Just Do It (“The Right Thing”)

My favorite Biblical character (we all have one, don’t we?) is King David. He is an incredibly human character, known just as well for...

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Visualizing a Great Year

With the new school year right around the corner for some and already here for others, how can you work to ensure this is a wonderful...

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Finding that “Just Right” School for your Child (and You!)

Choosing the right school for your child can be complicated, especially as Denver grows, and there are more and more options (public,...

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Turning the Summer Slide into the Summer Glide

The concept of the “summer slide” (the idea that students fall back in their learning and lose skills over the summer when they are not...

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What is Progressive Education, and Why Isn’t it New?

When asked to describe Einstein Academy, we often start by telling people that it is a model of progressive education, but what does that...

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EPIC Values

In a study led by Rick Weissbourd through the Harvard Graduate School of Education through the Making Caring Common Project, students...

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