by The Rashi School | Jun 8, 2023 | Learning, Lower School
While students observe holidays and memorials and hear stories from community members, formal Holocaust education begins at Rashi in Grade 5. “Our Holocaust unit is framed by the essential question: ‘How can individual actions affect others in the past, present, and...
by The Rashi School | Jun 1, 2023 | Learning, Middle School
Rashi’s Grade 8 class finalized their school year with 41 remarkable capstone projects. In a cumulative showing of their academic growth, students chose their projects based on five areas of interest—STEAM, Tikkun olam (repairing the world), athletics, music, and...
by The Rashi School | May 10, 2023 | Learning, Our Stories, Social Justice, Middle School
Rashi’s Grade 7 class embarked last week on its first-ever civil rights trip through the American South. This four-day trip, which was years in the making, took students through Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma to witness historic sites of the U.S....
by The Rashi School | Apr 24, 2023 | Community, Our Stories, Lower School
In your 17 years of working here, what are some things that are new at Rashi and what are some things that are the same? It’s astounding to think about how different the world was when I started to teach at Rashi in 2006. One of the most significant changes has been...
by The Rashi School | Apr 24, 2023 | Alumni Class Notes, Our Stories
What have you been up to since graduating Rashi? I attended Noble and Greenough School for high school and adored it. I loved applying what I learned from Mike Finke at Rashi about building elaborate sets in technical theater, running cross country, participating in a...