News from the Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem
JULY 2021 NEWSLETTER
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Your Help Is Needed Now!
Please Support SAE's Summer Camp for Children from the Foreign Community
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The children from the foreign community (asylum seekers, economic migrants and foreign workers) are faced with a difficult and complex reality, which does not allow them to enjoy the recreational activities like that of their peers.
The Society for the Advancement of Education, Jerusalem (SAE) operates and funds learning centers throughout the year for these children, in response to the need for a constructive framework for these children after school hours, and to help support learning processes and close educational gaps.
This summer, SAE wants to run an enjoyable and enriching summer camp for these children. SAE needs the help of supporters in the U.S. to enable the students to attend art and craft workshops, watch a movie, visit a museum or watch a live theater performance.
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Be part of the conversation on the educational challenges now facing Israeli society and the pioneering, ground-breaking approaches that SAE is employing to reshape the future of education in Israel.
In the third free program in the "Education in Israel Today" series, principals and academic experts in Israel will share with an international Zoom audience:
- the latest teaching techniques SAE is employing to ensure that each child reaches his/her maximum potential, and
- Plans for two new innovative high schools -- one built around sustainability and social responsibility and an International Baccalaurate School in Jerusalem -- to meet the evolving needs of Jewish tudents in Israel and worldwide.
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Original 9th Graders Graduate from Sindiana -
Israel's First Arab Youth Village for Leadership
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Hundreds of family and friends packed an auditorium in Givat Haviva to celebrate the graduation of 68 seniors from Sindiana -- the Arab Youth Village for Leadrrship -- on June 30th. Many of the graduates were members of the two original 9th grade classes when Sindiana opened in Fall 2017.
Founded on the principles of community involvement, pluralism, social equality and academic excellence, Sindiana provides a holistic educational framework, offering more than 400 students in grades 7 through 12 personal development, strengthening of his or her academic and social skills, involvement in Israeli society and cultivation of activist leadership inspired by their Arab culture.
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42 Graduate from K.A.N. Community School |
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42 graduates from K.A.N. Community School celebrated the end of a challenging year at graduation ceremonies on June 20th.
Principal Yael Sapir offered a touching farewell to the students, including this wish and prayer -- "that the doors everywhere you go will open for you and, maybe more importantly, that you dare to be a person who opens doors because, not surprisingly, for people who dare to open, more and more doors open ′′
K.A.N., established in 2014, is a community school for 125 boys and girls from religious, traditional and secular homes. K.A.N. encourages every child from every background to form their own Jewish identity.
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SAE Staff Holds Welcome In-person Development Day at Natural History Museum |
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Head of Advocacy Group for Boarding Schools Visits SAE Schools Talya & Boyar |
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The leadership team of SAE's schools and residences and the HQ staff spent a day of experiential learning recently at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in
Tel Aviv.
During SAE's Adminisrative Learning Forum, the diverse leadership team used the interesting spaces and exhibits of the museum to stimulate their discussions of innovative learning concepts that are the hallmark of the SAE.
It was also a welcome opportunity, after Covid, for a face-to-face meeting for discourse and peer learning. As one participant said, "It was amazing!"
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Avi Elbaz, the CEO of the Public Forum of Youth and Inner Villages in Israel, which works to better academic and living conditions in high school residences throughout Israel, recently visited SAE.
After meeting with Ranana Tzubari, the Ulpanat Talya boarding school director and the educational staff, Avi visited Boyar High School and toured Boyar's innovative hydroponic greenhouse.
Pictured above in the Boyar greenhouse are, from left, Yael Aberman, SAE VP of Development and Integration, Avi Elbaz, Dafna Menashe-Baruch, Boyar principal, and Eitan Moran, SAE Executive Director.
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Change a Life -- Make a Difference in Israel!
Help SAE meet the needs that students from disadvantaged communities had for extra assistance during COVID-19, including laptop computers and Internet access, to fully participate in hybrid and distance learning.
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American Friends of Kidum (AFK) is dedicated to increasing awareness and financial support
for the educational initiatives of the Society for Advancement of Education, Jerusalem (Kidum).
SAE runs 16 highly acclaimed high schools and residences for talented students from disadvantaged communities in Israel’s economic and geographic periphery, providing them with the academic skills and the social confidence they need to fully participate in and contribute to Israeli society.
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