Education Program: Looking to Fall

Looking Ahead to Fall

In this upcoming academic year, we will follow the wisdom of Proverbs to “educate each child according to their own needs,” and invite each family to find the path that feels meaningful for their student. In the religious school and teen program we will offer both in-person and online options so families can choose to be fully onsite, fully remote, or a bit of each.

Religious School

For our preschool through 7th grade learners we can’t wait to be back together onsite or online. This year we are excited to launch interest-based tracks to ensure that each child finds a path to learning that is best for them. Our new tracks include: TI Scholars, Studio Art Lab, Wilderness School, TI Actors, and TI Moves – Learning Judaism Through Movement and Sports. The Justice League is also ready for more excellent social justice programming. Our 5th through 7th graders will gather for justice action and education on their path towards their BMitzvah, and, this year we are officially launching the Junior Justice League for 2nd through 4th graders and their families. This year, Tali Puterman will be taking a step back from the religious school to focus on our congregation’s Racial Equity work so we are excited to announce that Rabbi Slipakoff and Fallon Rubin will be joined by our new Justice League Educator Ari Zimmet, our JL teachers Jayce Koester and Lara Haft, and our Junior Justice League educator Leonie Cohen.

No matter your child’s path, we will surely build together a school that is meaningful, joyful and, of course, lots of fun.

Interested in learning more about our religious school programs at Temple Israel? Contact Roberta Axeloons, Director of Elementary Education at raxeloons@tisrael.org or 617-566-3960 to learn more!

Teen Program

We can’t wait to gather again onsite for our 8th-12th grade teen programs. We will also offer virtual options where there is interest. We want all of our teens to participate in ways that are meaningful to them.

The Tent

Even though this year may look different from years past, we are excited to run the program as we always have, for the teens and by the teens. We will continue to offer a wide variety of classes through a Jewish lens in areas such as identity exploration, text study, social justice, pop culture, current events, self care, and so much more. We are also excited to be bringing back some of our teen trips, including an 8th and 9th grade immigration trip to New York City and a 10th and 11th grade Civil Rights trip to Alabama.

RYFTI

The Tent’s youth group, RYFTI, has had an outstanding year virtually, ending the year with a Clergy Weekend onsite at TI. We are thrilled to have recently inducted 9 teens onto the board for this upcoming school year from 4 different synagogues. We can’t wait to be back on Cape Cod for our Kallot (weekend retreats) and to stand back as our teens lead us in awesome programming!

Madrichim and Confirmation

Our Madrichim (classroom assistant) program is open to all teens who are budding educators and interested in helping out in our Religious School classrooms. The Confirmation Class for 10th graders with Rabbi Dan Slipakoff will continue to be a "choose your own adventure" program for teens to further explore their own Jewish identity. Interested in learning more about our teen programs at Temple Israel? Contact Fallon Rubin, Assistant Director of Teen and Youth Programming at frubin@tisrael.org or 617-566-3960 to learn more!