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Mission: Possible - #DoingThePossible
We at Einstein Academy believe in the power and the potential of the individual and the community. We believe that students, no matter...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


A School for Today, Not 100 Years Ago
Our school system today has its basis in the world of agriculture, industrialism, and academia. However, in today’s world, 2% of the US...


Putting a Feeling Into Words
Think about the feeling you had the first time you held your child...or when you summited that fourteener...or when you took a bite of a...


Embracing (Rather than Avoiding) Summer Boredom
It is reported that Albert Einstein, renowned physicist and namesake of Einstein Academy, would spend hours studying bugs on the sidewalk...


Turning the Summer Slide into the Summer Glide
The concept of the “summer slide” (the idea that students fall back in their learning and lose skills over the summer when they are not...


What is Progressive Education, and Why Isn’t it New?
When asked to describe Einstein Academy, we often start by telling people that it is a model of progressive education, but what does that...


REAL Learning
At Einstein Academy, we say our approach to education is “REAL Learning,” but what does that really mean? For us, REAL stands for...
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