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On Wednesday afternoon, we organized a virtual play date with our incoming Gan students. Morah Jamie taught a song with hand motions, Erin and our Gan teachers lead the game of Amazing Fetch and [...]

Since I entered the field of education over 40 years ago, I have been hearing about the notion of summer educational loss, a notion that looks at learning as some sort of a bank of knowledge that [...]

In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens writes, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, [...]

From a very early age, my son loved counting. He’d chalk numbers on the sidewalk, count the cheerios in his bowl, and loved being timed. For him, numbers represented something tangible, a [...]

This Tuesday our school will join together in community and ruach (spirit), over zoom for our annual Lag B’Omer festivities. Lag B’Omer (literally translated as the 33rd day of the Omer) is a [...]

Thank You and Standing Together I want to start with a very big THANK YOU. Thank you to the faculty and staff at Yavneh for doing all you do each day in these unusual and often stressful [...]

Do you remember the pivotal moment that led you to where you are today? Do you remember the moment that changed your journey? I didn’t know it then, but for me it was the interactions I had with [...]

We are excited to share good news. With your help and based on deep and thoughtful feedback and a rigorous process, the Board of Trustees has enthusiastically appointed the position of Head of [...]

What started as a typical season: school-wide Tu B’shvat plantings and seders, a successful Generations Day and an incredible eighth grade led Purim Megillah reading, shpiel and school wide [...]

Am I my brother’s keeper? הֲשֹׁמֵ֥ר אָחִ֖י אָנֹֽכִי׃ Year after year, countless people tell me they choose Yavneh because of our community. In our increasingly online and automated world, they [...]