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The Idea School – To establish The Idea Institute, the school’s new hub for professional development, community learning, and resource sharing. The Idea Institute will promote interdisciplinary Project-Based Learning to foster inquiry, curiosity, and creativity.

Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island – To support the creation and expansion of the school’s TikkunXDesign and Beta Midrash programs, which integrate Jewish texts, traditions, and values with human-centered Design Thinking and STEAM education. Through this grant, the Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Islane (JCDSRI) will focus on two related programs, the expansion of its Tikkun...

To support the efforts to codify a unique teacher training and professional development program.

To create and implement a professional development program to train teachers in Project Based Learning.

To support creation of a Jewish Studies curriculum that is integrated with a maker’s program and core academics.

To develop teacher training and curricula integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) with Jewish Studies. The Jewish STEAM Project was designed to address the rising demand from Jewish organizations to deliver authentic Jewish STEAM experiences. The goal of the project was to develop the resources for multiple Jewish STEAM projects and train educators to use these tools. ...

To complete development, implementation, and roll-out of a digital badging system that, fully integrated with the congregational school curriculum (for grades K-7) in a Reform Jewish congregation, will support the blending of in-class and at-home learning objectives to more effectively engage and motivate students and their families while deepening their appreciation of and participation in Jewish...

To create a community arts and social justice program, deepen and develop digital badging, and pilot arts integration for Orthodox girls. The project strengthened The Binah School’s Service Learning Expedition through the creation of a community arts program. This program taught 21st-century skills, such as digital literacy and interdisciplinary thinking, through the arts and provided the school...

In 2009, RAVSAK was awarded a Covenant Grant to disseminate JCAT (Jewish Court of All Time), a web-based simulation that engages middle school students in learning Jewish history through researching and role-playing as historical figures. RAVSAK argued in its proposal that “traditional methods of presenting history are particularly ill-suited to the current group of ‘millennial learners’ wh...

To help IKAR’s membership organize into six minyanim, each built around a social justice project rooted in Jewish learning. From “”Advancing Jewish Social Justice and Environmental Action: Lessons Learned from Covenant Grantees,”” by Meredith Woocher, Ph.D, February 2016: “”The “Minyan Tzed...