Newsletter: Schechter Shavua :: Solomon Schechter Day School

Schedule Your Visit

Donate Now

Tuition/Programs Payment

SEARCH NEWS

Newsletter: Schechter Shavua

Schechter Shavua: June 6, 2025

As we wrap up the 2024-2025 school year, we take a step back to understand and appreciate the impact of Schechter learning. In Kindergarten, that could take the shape of a beautiful handmade Torah or a book of carefully curated photography. In Alim (grades 3-4) student learning reflects an…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: May 23, 2025

Schechter learning doesn’t just end in the classroom. Students of all ages have the opportunity to apply their knowledge in places and situations sometimes far from our campus! This week, we focus on a few of the places that students are making connections between the classroom and the world around…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: May 9, 2025

We are so proud of Schechter graduate Eitan Ehrlich (2016), whose documentary Live. Ride. Cure. will be screened at the Schechter auditorium on May 29th… learn more about it in this issue! Meanwhile, the gears keep turning for current Schechter students: Anafim students (gr. 1-2) learn about the…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: April 25, 2025

Discover. Connect. Create. These words aren’t just promotional lines at Schechter; we live them each day: when our middle school students make connections between a 1638 treaty and today; when our after school drama club collaborates with enthusiasm to produce a fantastic musical; when our three-…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: April 4, 2025

Schechter provides students with the important foundations of learning that will help them navigate their future education, professions, and personal beliefs and interactions. In this issue, read how Anafim students are building strong writing techniques and how middle schoolers in debate club…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: March 21, 2025

Sometimes, when sizes or times are so massive, like with the concept of "Deep Time" or millions vs. billions, it helps to shrink them down to something as mundane as a roll of toilet paper. Learn how Middle School students make these abstract concepts more concrete. After school yoga helps students…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: March 7, 2025

Creativity can come in many forms: tapping out patterns using rhythm sticks and hearing that same rhythm repeated by friends, designing a maze that reflects light bouncing off of a variety of surfaces to reach the finish line, or coaxing a bunch of separate ingredients into a beautiful braided loaf…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: February 21, 2025

Sometimes the “academic” learning we do at Schechter also helps students understand themselves better. These insights can often make lessons richer. Anafim’s studies of Ha Mishpacha Sheli (My Family) and Alim’s use of new Makerspace tools to design “Creatures Like Me” deepen students’ understanding…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: February 7, 2025

How accurate is the “Five Second Rule”? Our middle school scientists, who have been studying bacteria, have some theories about this and other questions about microorganisms. Then read a beautiful observation by Alim (gr. 3-4) teacher Erica Moses about her students’ recent Rosh Hodesh service. Learn…

LEARN MORE>>

Schechter Shavua: January 24, 2025

Endless curiosity. Passion for justice. Fun practicing Hebrew. These are some of the qualities that make Schechter… Schechter. This issue dives into the ways in which those qualities come to life each day for our students. Scientists in Nitzanim(EC2) and Alim (gr. 3-4) are learning about hibernation…

LEARN MORE>>