Ramaz Development
Newsletter | June 2020
The Switch to Online Learning With the launch of the Ramaz distance learning website, we have adapted to a virtual school with an online campus. Through the integrated website, students log on to watch classes, view assignments, and connect with peers. Throughout this change to online classrooms, Ramaz has remained committed to its values and mission, including instilling in our students a love of learning, participating in arts and culture, having an active voice, and maintaining a sense of responsibility to the world at large, which our students have continued to exemplify from home. Ramaz students have been excited to hear from guest speakers, and collaborate on chesed projects, choir performances, cooking clubs, and co-curricular programming while still staying safely at home. Faculty have also been creative in finding ways to expand at home learning with innovative ideas such as cooking demos for learning about kashrut and using supplies around the house for experiments and presentations.
Academic Excellence The ECC and Lower School hosted story times for students with Ruth Gafni, Head of Ramaz N-8. Each story was connected to their year-long focus on middot. Middle School and Upper School students remained committed to religious growth by engaging in our “after school” virtual Mishmar. These programs exposed students to the idea and experience of learning L’shma and provided the opportunity for our students to engage in topics outside of the standard curriculum. Together with Rabbi Laniado and Rabbi Hagler, fifth and sixth grade students learned the Rambam, and seventh and eight grade students learned Mishna Brura Hilchot Tefillah. During Upper School’s Aschendorf Family Mishmar students learned from different teachers each week. Classes were driven by student questions allowing them to continue to explore Jewish values and thought even from home. We love that our students get excited about the idea of connecting to Hashem through learning Torah!