Responses+-+Parents+Expectations

How does integration support parents' expectations?
 * * most parents are on board ||
 * * Not Sure what the parents' expectations are ||
 * * Integration allows parents to feel that their children are learning Jewish subjects in a "modern way" ||
 * * Parents in a Reform setting are more concerned with academics than Jewish identity so integration presents strengthening Jewish identity as part of this goal. ||
 * * Most parents concerned with general studies success and fostering of critical thinkers - integration does this ||
 * * critical ||
 * * Parents seem to be excited about the idea of integration. ||
 * * Making learning meaningful ||
 * * <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;">Not sure. ||
 * * <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;">Generally, the parents at our school are not as concerned about Jewish studies as they are about general studies. However, when JS can be added in as a bonus to enrich the GS, they're pleased. Also, they like when skills in the JS classroom can strengthen their children's performance in the GS classroom. ||
 * * <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;">In my experience in the kindergarten, the most enthusiastic feedback we get from parents is often from an integrated learning experience, because (when it works) it has a deep impact on the kids. ||
 * * <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;">Difficult question. Depends on the parents. Some parents devalue the Judaics/Hebrew. Others come for the integration and feel that not enough is being 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;">I think our parents want their kids to love being Jewish and to have powerful learning associated with it. This is consonant with integrated 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;">The parent body seems pleased with our curriculum. ||
 * * <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 comfort level of an integrated identity supports parents' expectations. ||
 * * <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 above ||
 * * <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;">Parents want their children to read, write, and create intelligently--the depth they see in their children's learning is pleasing to them. ||
 * * <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 am not certain of the parent's expectations in this area. I believe they may view it as a bonus to their child's 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;">I think parents don't often prioritize or see many examples of integration between general/Jewish subjects in my school. If they did, I think they would be excited at the rich learning opportunities it would provide but unfortunately not many teachers in my school integrate between Jewish/general. Within general studies subjects, however, parents appreciate integration (such as language arts and social studies/science) because it helps use time efficiently in a packed school day. ||
 * * <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;">Parents love JS for its own sake but love it all the more when it speaks to their larger concerns about preparing their children for both higher grades and life in general. Parents are big fans and supporters of my curriculum. ||
 * * <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;">Content is covered in a more efficient manner with skills that are applied across disciplines- ||
 * * <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;">My co-teacher who teacher who teaches all the Judaics (not Hebrew) ensures that they are learning parts of speech, language and writing skills as she has them do Torah translation, write book reports, and other writing projects. This ensures that skills the parents are worried their child may not get because of the dual curriculum are covered in both classes. We work together by ensuring I have taught the skill in the GS room before they need it in the JS room. For example I teach the students how to write a character background and then later in the year in JS they create a background for a Shoah character they work on. In 5th grade they only learn about the beginnings of the Shoah and do not go into the camps and study survivor stories. This is carried into my room when students want to write a story with a character that is killed in it. I am able to say, "We only do survivor stories in 5th grade." Any attempted arguments are quickly squashed. ||
 * * <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;">Parents have no expectations ||
 * * <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;">No idea. ||
 * * <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 parents expect us to fulfill the mission - so that their children walk through life with Judaism as their map. ||
 * * <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 supports the cognitive growth, identity formation and self confidence that parents expect from a high caliber independent school promising to prepare students for college and life beyond. ||
 * * <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;">Don't know ||
 * * <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 reason that parents send their children to Milken is that they want their children to develop a deeper level of understanding and connectedness to 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;">Parents expect students to learn the importance of appropriate values. ||
 * * <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;">Most parents seem to me not to articulate expectations in this area. They expect their children to receive a sophisticated education in both Jewish and general subjects. ||
 * * <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;">That varies, although I do not know how much. ||
 * * <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 it helps make Jewish life and Judaism more relevant and real for kids, and surely that is what parents hope for from their day 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;">Provides students with a more sophisticated world view -- students are more engaged. ||
 * * <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;">Parents are eager to find areas in which their children will succeed, accomplish, and excel. Integration allows for the steps of this process to happen concurrently and more expediently than otherwise.. ||
 * * <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;">Parents want highest academic standards and internalization and application of Jewish identity and values ||
 * * <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;">This would vary with each student's parent ||
 * * <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;">Since integration allows the students to see more relevance in Jewish Studies they are able to develop their Jewish identity which is one of the primary expectations of the parents ||
 * * <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 this type of integration meets the parents' expectations. ||
 * * <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 so ||
 * * <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;">Parents expect their children to have a well-rounded education, and for their Jewish Studies to be an integrated part of their lives as members of the 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's tricky to fulfill a duel curriculum year in and year out. By integrating, our school can provide a much richer and varied curricular experience. ||
 * * <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;">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;">Parents want their children to both become a part of modern society as well as uphold traditions. Tensions exist when these two are seen as contradictory and separate and affect the child's identity and decision making skills in these areas. When students see themselves as one whole being, they can make sound decisions, and parents will be happy that their children identify both as a Jew and as someone who participates in the modern 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;">Good feedback? ||
 * * <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;">They appreciate that their children are getting a superior secular and Jewish education that connects and relates to the world in which they live. ||
 * * <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;">One reason people send their kids to Jewish day school is to help them grow as Jewish Americans, one single identity rather than competing pieces of their 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;">I'm not sure. ||
 * * <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 well rounded individuals. ||
 * * <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;">Parents want their kids to be integrated adults who are practicing Jews but are fully part of American 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;">Parents want to have everything for the child. Integration helps students get "more" out of their 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;">I'm not sure about this one. Perhaps just in their desire for an integrated person to graduate from our program, understanding that Judaism is a part of them in their daily 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;">Not sure ||