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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Defining ExcellenceGreek philosopher Aristotle once said, “Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The SuperPower of KindnessIn an episode of the sitcom Friends, two of the characters have a debate based on the theories of philosopher Immanuel Kant about whether...
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...
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...
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...