Student Writing Throughout Schechter Manhattan Students at Schechter Manhattan are writing across the curriculum. In whatever area of study they are exploring, they have opportunities to express their ideas and what they have learned in writing- thereby solidifying their understanding of concepts and also practicing their writing skills. I get excited when I see […]
Innovations in Covid Schooling By Rachel Mann, Schechter Manhattan Parent and Alumni Parent If you had asked me last March what this school year would look like, I couldn’t have predicted it. While school this past spring required an overnight-shift to distance learning, this year Schechter Manhattan leaders have reimagined how students can learn under […]
Student Engineers at Work: The Lieberman Family STEAM Center Even as school this year is different than ever before, the work of the Lieberman Family STEAM Center continues to enrich the learning of our students in all grades. At Schechter Manhattan, we view STEAM (the integration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) as an […]
Perspective Taking and Empathy: Skills for Success Over the last few years I have asserted repeatedly that, among the many important skills we help students develop at Schechter Manhattan, perspective taking and empathy are critical for our students’ success. By perspective taking, I mean the ability to hold in one’s mind both one’s own understanding […]
Respectful dialogue across difference: Teaching politics at Schechter Manhattan At Schechter Manhattan we aspire for our students to develop the skills and dispositions to be active citizens in American society. This year, as every year, we are engaging students in study of the election cycle. The current election campaign has reflected the contentious nature of […]
Taking Stock of Our First Month We are just about a month into this unusual school year, and, as we approach the end of the holiday season with shemini atzeret and simchat torah this weekend, it feels like an appropriate moment to take stock of the grand experiment we have undertaken to safely open school […]
Joyous Jewish Living and Learning at Schechter Manhattan Kids like to shake the lulav. Over my years at Schechter Manhattan I have found this to be invariably true. Give students a lulav and etrog and smiles emerge, faces light up. Shaking a lulav is fun. It makes us happy. As we look forward to sukkot […]
Schechter Manhattan’s Amazing Alumni! It is Schechter Manahttan’s 25th year and even as we navigate a year like none before, there is much to celebrate about all that our school community has accomplished. As I have seen the current students return to school these past weeks, I have found myself thinking about all of the […]
Communal Responsibility this Rosh Hashana: Follow Public Health and Safety Guidelines As most years, students at Schechter Manhattan spent time during the first days of school learning about and preparing for the upcoming Jewish holidays and new Jewish year. Rosh Hashanah this year will surely feel different than ever before, as we approach the […]
Welcome Back to Schechter Manhattan! As we welcomed students back to school yesterday and today, so much seemed different from the start of any previous school year. Daily health screenings and temperature check, masks, 6 feet distance, distance learning, plastic desk shields, and desks in rows. At Schechter Manhattan we never had rows of desks– […]
