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Finding the Joy in a Dark Month
The Jewish calendar can be funny sometimes. During the month of Tishrei (which almost exactly lined up with October this year), we had...
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Making the Most of a Snowy Situation
With the first official snow day behind us, you might already be planning for the next one (it is Colorado, after all). If you’re looking...
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A School for Anyone, Not Everyone
When we talk about our reasons for starting Einstein Academy, we always, inevitably, discuss our own school experiences and how they’ve...
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Learning about Community from the Holiday of Sukkot
We at Einstein Academy love fall. We love the crisp mornings and pumpkin spice everything. We love the changing colors and how different...
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Einstein for All: A Look at Our Admissions Policy
The Pew Research Center put out a study in 2013 entitled “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” which looks at various aspects of Jewish...
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At Einstein Academy, We Love What We Do
We recently participated in a webinar about organizational culture, which focused on intentionally developing and fostering the kind of...
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Embracing Fall and a Chance for New Beginnings
Monday, September 23 marked the first day of fall. While we in Colorado may still be experiencing summer-like temperatures in the middle...
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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...
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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...
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The Marvelous Individual
We love back to school pictures that flood social media around this time of year. We love seeing the creative signs kids are holding and...
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The Power of Elul: Adding Reflection to Our Lives
School has started, and we can begin to feel a shift in the weather (some days)...which can mean only one thing: the Jewish holiday...
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Getting Your Kids to Talk After School
Now that the school year has begun, parents everywhere are grappling with the same question: “How do I get my kids talking about their...
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Just Do It (“The Right Thing”)
My favorite Biblical character (we all have one, don’t we?) is King David. He is an incredibly human character, known just as well for...
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Visualizing a Great Year
With the new school year right around the corner for some and already here for others, how can you work to ensure this is a wonderful...
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Getting Ready for Back to School
School supplies have been on the shelves for weeks, and back to school sales seem to be everywhere, but beyond the usual (buy school...
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Finding that “Just Right” School for your Child (and You!)
Choosing the right school for your child can be complicated, especially as Denver grows, and there are more and more options (public,...
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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...
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Meet Mark and Sarah
Meet Mark and Sarah You might know Dr. Sarah Levy and Mark Parmet as the co-founders of Einstein Academy, but who are they? We asked them...
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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...
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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...
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