Responses+-+School+Mission

How does integration support your school's mission?
 * * connected to mission as well as to namesake ||
 * * We don't have a written mission, however it supports our goals because it allows us to teach social behavior through Jewish values and allows us to infuse their lives with Jewish history, culture, and tradition ||
 * * Integration is not a key component of our mission ||
 * * The mission mentions both academic skills and Jewish identity. Integration would make a connection between these. ||
 * * Mission includes effective, caring, committed world citizens and Jews - integration can foster this ||
 * * strongly ||
 * * It very much does! ||
 * * Building lifelong learners ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The school's mission is to create critical thinkers. I would think that integration supports this aspect of the school's mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">School aims to provide a strong academic curriculum; integration strengthens the curriculum. Also aim to teach Jewish values and ethics; this is best done when integrated into other things students are learning ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integration is central to the JCDS mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The mission states that JCDS is striving for an integrated curriculum...experience....setting. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a pluralist school we affirm that different ways of expressing Judaism are valid but that they must draw on our common heritage. The turn to our heritage, and the call to express our Judaism affirmatively, argue against compartmentalized thinking in which Judaism is merely an activity the complements our primary lives. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It supports the school's mission of helping to foster development of students who have a responsibility to actively participate in both the Jewish community and the wider community. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It empowers and excites learners ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To become effective leaders in the world, children need to have a rich understanding of "the world," of history, and of the variety of arenas in which they may lead. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I think my school relies heavily on the Jewish Studies curriculum to provide critical/deeper level thinking to students which they may not have as much time for during the limited general studies time. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We have a mission of creating deep thinkers and multifaceted individuals. I think what I do fulfills this goal. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It builds relevance and invests students in the learning. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our school's tag line is "Where Tradition and Innovation Inspire Tomorrow's Leaders." Their goal is to produce strong Jewish leaders and to do this students need to see how their Judaism is important in all aspects of life and how the general subjects learned can help them express their Judaism in the world. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We say we integrate, but the board really has no sense of what that means, and what that entails ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integration is a critical component of our school's mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Creating a young adult with Jewish values and morals. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The mission is for students to approach life through the lens of Judaism ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integrations offers an opportunity for students to actualize the school's mission to develop sharp minds, kind hearts and generous souls. If students struggle to make connections between their pluralistic identities and fragmented discipline based knowledge and skills set, then they will fail to meet the school's mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is an important part of our mission ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is a part of the mission as well as integrating their Israeli roots. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The students see the influence of Judaica in our world, and how it has helped to shape Western culture. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It contributes to critical thinking and clear and effective communication. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is directly linked to our mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Well, I presume it prepares kids better for life in the real world, and that is surely every school's mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is the pause between the notes. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integration allows the faculty to explore commitment to Judaism on multiple levels and from a pluralistic vantage. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integration as a way of thinking and a way of being--a tool for achieving highest academic standards, Jewish ethical and spiritual values, pluralism, dedication to Jewish people and commitment to America/humanity. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integration is a main component in the mission of our school. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are a school whose goals focus on cross-curriculum education ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It does in so far as the Jewish holidays and the secular holidays are celebrated and taught in the school. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">yes ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The mission of our school is to support the growth of the entire child. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Jewish and General studies are fluid and inform one another. Looking through a Jewish lens while studying science can be quite interesting and turn the paradigm on its head a bit. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Yes ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is not really done ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">well ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sinai seeks to affect the mind, heart and soul of each student as well as make an important connection with Israel. Integration would further depth in each of these areas and educate the whole child rather than see the child in terms of his/her separate parts. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It does-it's part of the mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Having an integrated curriculum is part of our schools mission and philosophy. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Part of our mission is "...to teach our students to become educated, committed, and ethical members of both their Jewish and American communities..." ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Yes, integration is an important part of my school's mission. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To be modern orthodox Jews, living in secular society. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The mission of "Education for Life" broadly includes the idea of integrating all of one's faculties into one's approach to life. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is not explicitly in the mission, though I'm sure my school in theory supports integration. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integration helps to teach to the "whole child" which is what our mission states. ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Integration is no longer directly in the mission statement, but can be inferred by the mission statement ||
 * * <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; 0in margin-bottom: 0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Through our mission statement as a Jewish school, but one that supports a pluralistic approach. ||