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Bringing Harvard Home: Building PLCs and Using Data to Help our Students Learn

by Guest | Feb 26, 2019

In 1997, The AVI CHAI Foundation began sponsoring day school leaders to attend one of two week-long summer institutes at The Principals Center, a division of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Many of the 566 participants who have attended since then found the...

Toward a Strategic Philanthropic Approach to Field Building

by Susan Kardos | Feb 21, 2019

By: Susan Kardos Cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy. [As The AVI CHAI Foundation prepares to sunset, a year-long series from their staff about philanthropic lessons learned.] About ten years ago we, at The AVI CHAI Foundation, set out to determine...

Students in Charge and in Control: Exploring and Designing Student Self-Paced Online Learning

by Guest | Feb 14, 2019

Rabbi David Saltzman, Principal and Tefilah teacher at Maimonides School in Brookline, MA, is a participant in Jblend Boston, a partnership between AVI CHAI and the Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP). The program works with 8 Jewish day schools in Greater Boston as...

The Secret to Making Professional Development Stick

by Guest | Feb 12, 2019

In 1997, The AVI CHAI Foundation began sponsoring day school leaders to attend one of two week-long summer institutes at The Principals Center, a division of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Many of the 566 participants who have attended since then found the...

Meet Chana German

by Deborah Fishman | Feb 7, 2019

Congratulations to Chana German on becoming Executive Director of The Lookstein Center for Jewish Education. AVI CHAI Program Officer Galli Aizenman took the opportunity to ask her some questions about herself, her vision, and her passions. Can you tell us a little...

Bringing Harvard Home: Building PLCs and Using Data to Help our Students Learn

Toward a Strategic Philanthropic Approach to Field Building

Students in Charge and in Control: Exploring and Designing Student Self-Paced Online Learning

The Secret to Making Professional Development Stick

Meet Chana German

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Remarks by Mem Bernstein at JFN 2019

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Toward a Strategic Philanthropic Approach to Field Building

Failing to Succeed: Two Case Studies

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Giving Away Knowledge, Free of Charge

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Failing to Succeed