News

List of 15 news stories.

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  How Active and Imaginative Play Encourages Learning

  3/22/2019
  Active, imaginative play is intimately linked with early childhood learning. As a parent, how do you know if an educational environment is conducive to development and creativity?
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  Alumni Notes – Spring 2019

  3/21/2019
  Here's what our alumni have been up to!

• The 2019 Israel Trip

  3/18/2019
  Follow the Class of 2019 as they travel through Israel!
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  Before a Single Chip is Dropped, How Do We Get There?

  3/15/2019
  Learn about the academic process that takes place during Tamchui's Allocation Week.
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  Life-long Friendships and Learning: The Rashi and Leo Baeck Connection

  3/15/2019
  It was a Friday afternoon as students and parents filed into Rashi’s auditorium. The atmosphere was filled with excitement and energy, but also some apprehension and maybe even a little sadness. 
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  When Thinking About Science Fair Projects, Fifth Graders Look to a Mentor

  3/12/2019
  The Rashi School’s fifth-grade science fair is a rite of passage for students at the Boston area’s Reform Jewish day school.
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  The Day That a School Nurse Became a School Hero

  3/11/2019
  Kezia, or Kez, as the students call her, can usually be found in the health office but on Thursday, March 7, she was presenting to students about Klinik Jubilee...
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  What We’re Reading: Talking About Race

  3/8/2019
  Bud shares his thoughts about a think piece from the Washington Post about parenting and race.
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  Reading Across Generations

  3/7/2019
  Rashi recently celebrated its 3rd annual Read Across America Day program by hosting 20 grandparents who volunteered to spend the day reading with our K-2 students. 
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  Representative from The Leatherback Trust Inspires Rashi Students

  3/7/2019
  Conversations in the classroom go a long way to bring alive the issues we study during Tamchui, but the best way to ignite the passions and imaginations of students is to connect them directly to those who are doing the work they’re studying.
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  Innovation: Africa Comes to Teach at Rashi

  3/1/2019
  Innovation: Africa is an Israeli nonprofit that empowers communities in African countries to access solar energy. 
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  Multigenerational Programming: Connecting the Vibrancy of Youth with the Wisdom of Seniors

  3/1/2019
  This reflection from Alumni parent Lynda Bussgang focuses on the value she brought to Rashi by helping to build the relationship between Rashi and NewBridge nearly a decade ago.
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  These Young Ambassadors Bring Modern Israel to Rashi

  2/14/2019
  For three years, The Rashi School has benefitted from the Shnat Sherut (Shinshin) program, welcoming recent Israeli high school graduates into our classrooms: first Dor and Nisso, then Shira and Bar, now Adar and Nitzan.
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  What We're Reading

  2/1/2019
  Ways to Help Kids Cope with and Help Combat Climate Change
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  Development Officers Present at CASE-NAIS Conference

  1/30/2019
  Amy Klotz, Assistant Director of Development at The Rashi School and Kim Stone, Director of Alumni Relations at The Rashi School, recently traveled to Philadelphia to speak at the widely attended 2019 CASE-NAIS Independent School Conference.