by The Rashi School | Feb 16, 2024 | Lower School, Middle School, Social Justice, Our Stories, Learning, Community
The 30th year of the Suzanne and Bernard Pucker Tamchui Project came to a close today after weeks of incredible learning, organizing, and doing. Tamchui (meaning “community collection pot” in Aramaic) is Rashi’s annual three-week, all-school social justice initiative...
by The Rashi School | Feb 2, 2024 | Community, Lower School, Middle School, Social Justice, Learning
The 2024/5784 Suzanne and Bernard Pucker Tamchui Program kicked off this week, and we couldn’t be more excited! Tamchui, meaning “community collection pot” in Aramaic, is a three week, all-school academic initiative that focuses on teaching...
by The Rashi School | Jan 29, 2024 | Lower School, Learning
Grade 2 has an iconic curricular unit called the “Wax Museum” that is designed to give students first-hand insights into key leaders in history. The Wax Museum ties into their biographical reading and writing unit, with each student assigned a figure to study and...
by The Rashi School | Jan 11, 2024 | Lower School, Learning, Alumni Class Notes
In your 12 years of working here, what are some things that are new at Rashi and what are some things that are the same? I have been teaching at Rashi for 12 years; ten years in Grade 2 and currently in year two teaching Grade 4. It was my daughter Amelia that...
by The Rashi School | Nov 8, 2023 | Lower School, Learning
From Lower School Math Specialist Fallon Katz At Rashi, the goal of math education is to bring the vitality of math into the awareness of students so they can recognize it in the world around them. Math manipulatives—like Cuisenaire rods, Unifix cubes, fraction bars...
