Hidden Sparks is grateful to its partner organizations, which have helped us develop and deepen our school-based teacher training and coaching initiatives in 21 schools in New York, and to expand to seven schools in Boston. They have helped us provide teachers with the tools and strategies to better understand and teach children with social, emotional, and learning differences, and to enhance opportunities of teachers in Jewish day schools nationwide
Bank Street College of Education
www.bnkst.edu
Internal Coaches who participate in Hidden Sparks training and mentoring are eligible to receive three graduate school credits from Bank Street College of Education.
Bank Street College is devoted to improving the education of children and their teachers. It includes a graduate school of education, a division for continuing education, an elementary school, and a publications and media group, which creates innovative books, CDs, television programs and websites for and about children.
The Churchill School and Center
www.churchillschool.com
Hidden Sparks and The Churchill School are pleased to collaborate on a model pilot to create an innovative and transformational curriculum and training program for teaching struggling students with learning differences and behavioral challenges.
The Churchill School, a K-12 school of approximately 400 students, is dedicated to educating children with learning disabilities in a comprehensive full-day program that, with appropriate accommodations, gives students full access to a general education curriculum.
Ravsak
www.ravsak.org
With funding from the Covenant Foundation and organizational support from RAVSAK: The Jewish Day School 7 teachers from Jewish day schools in Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina and Tennessee attended the July 2012 Learning Lenses course, 5 of whom are continuing as Internal Coaches.
RAVSAK strengthens and sustains the life, leadership and learning of Jewish community day schools, ensuring a vibrant Jewish future.
Shemesh, Baltimore, MD
www.shemeshbaltimore.org
With funding from the Covenant Foundation, Hidden Sparks has partnered with Shemesh to introduce the Hidden Sparks professional development program to the Baltimore area, beginning with 3 schools in the 2012-13 school year.
Shemesh serves the Baltimore community by providing the educational support necessary for Jewish children with learning differences to reach their full intellectual, emotional, academic, and social potential in a Jewish setting. Services are offered in each school according to the school’s educational and religious policies.
