by Ari Yares | Nov 14, 2012 | Jewish Day School
With the start of this week, I have officially entered my post-Sandy life. A little more than a week ago, I was beginning think that the end of days was approaching or at least a recreation of the 10 plagues. After all, between the hurricane, the snow storm, the...
by Ari Yares | Oct 24, 2012 | School Psychology
Good is a lousy answer. I don’t mean to say that I am a perpetually dissatisfied person. There are times and places where good is a reasonable answer. We want things to be good. We want to feel satisfied and content. Thinking back to my visit with the Amish last...
by Ari Yares | Oct 21, 2012 | 21st Century Learning, Jewish Day School, Schechter School of Long Island
I saw a lot of silos last week. It probably had something to do with the fact that I was on a 6th grade trip through Pennsylvania Dutch Country, but I wasn’t just noticing the silos on the outside of our bus. We have plenty of silos inside of our schools, too....
by Ari Yares | Jul 27, 2012 | School Leadership
Artist Raghava KK has a 200 year plan. What!? These days I’m lucky if I know what my plan is for next week, let alone 200 years from now. Raghava’s plan is ambitious and has an incredibly long time horizon, but maybe he is not as crazy as he sounds.In...
by Ari Yares | Mar 19, 2012 | 21st Century Learning
I have been a little skeptical about the use of social media in schools. It’s not that I don’t see the potential benefits for providing a space to practice digital citizenship as Matthew R. Winn lays out in his article in Learning and Leading. Actually,...
by Ari Yares | Mar 5, 2012 | Writings
It is usually an honor to be asked to deliver a d’var torah at a meeting, so when asked recently to give one for a committee meeting I naturally accepted. Feeling somewhat flattered (the committee is filled with rabbis and others who have more Jewish knowledge...
