August 28, 2014 – Hidden Sparks presented an overview of the Learning Lenses to the 200 faculty members of the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey as part of their back-to-school professional development program. The 3-hour workshop provided an overview of…
July 2014 -Hidden Sparks is honored to have been awarded a grant from the Howard and Geraldine Polinger Family Foundation to support its Internal Coach Program. Hidden Sparks and the Polinger Family Foundation, which supports programs that enhance affiliation and identification with Jewish culture…
August 2014 – Hidden Sparks held the first meeting of its inaugural School Leader Program, which provides planning and peer support for implementing school-wide initiatives that reflect Hidden Sparks’ goals. This first meeting, which brought together administrators from a spectrum…
August 2014 – This summer, Hidden Sparks piloted its new blended-learning Learning Lenses course with 19 educators from the Metropolitan area. Marrying the best of in-person and on-line learning, the course was comprised of the material covered in the traditional…
July 21, 2014 – Now in the fourth week of our blended course, participants are engaged in rich on-line discussions and reflections surrounding the Learning Lenses and their application to students. This week’s activities, and small group work focusing on the…
July 2014 – We had a fabulous Learning Lenses Israel pilot with our partner, the Society for The Advancement of Education, despite the tension, which was already on the rise at the beginning of the course. Internal and External Coaches in training and…
July 1, 2014 -This week, Hidden Sparks began piloting its new blended-learning Learning Lenses course with over 20 educators from the Metropolitan area. Marrying the best of in-person and on-line learning, this course is comprised of the material covered in…
Hidden Sparks is honored to have been awarded a grant from the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New York, which announced its 2014 grant recipients at its Annual Meeting on June 12th. Befitting of the JWFNY’s mission, which includes “providing education…
July 2014 – Through a new collaboration with Agudah L’Kidum Chinuch, Hidden Sparks is piloting its External and Internal Coach programs in schools in Jerusalem, Ramle and Ranana during the upcoming year. To launch the pilot, Hidden Sparks hosted its…