Our IMPACT

For over 10 years, Hidden Sparks has impacted thousands of students and teachers in Jewish schools across the US and Israel through school-based coaching in understanding student learning and behavior. Recognized 6 times for innovation by Slingshot, Hidden Sparks has also trained 210 educators from 69 Jewish day schools to act as Internal (peer) Coaches in their schools in the New York Metro area, Baltimore, MD, Boca Raton, FL, and Chicago, IL, including nine schools in five Israeli cities (Jerusalem, Kfar Adumim, Lod, Modiin, Ramle).

Program STATS

2017-18 ECP Program (NY): This year, Hidden Sparks External Coaches in eight NY schools are working intensively with 93 classroom teachers impacting over 1000  students in the New York metro area. External coaches deliver an an average of 20 workshops to teacher teams per year.

2017 ICP Program (US): 73 Internal Coaches are coaching 130 of their peers in our Internal Coach Programs in NY, NJ, FL,  IL, impacting over 1837 students.

2017 Israel Program: Our Israel program is running in 8 schools, working with 211 classroom teachers, and impacting 1825 students. The Hidden Sparks curriculum has been translated into Hebrew and parts into Arabic.

Webinars: Since its inception, Hidden Sparks Without Walls has offered 89 webinars with over 3,000 participating educators and parents from hundreds of Jewish Schools in 92 cities across 20 US states and 4 Canadian provinces, Chile, Brazil.

Title-funded Coaching: Over 600 days of coaching provided through Federal Title funding to teachers in NYC schools.

Official NYS Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education Requirements (CTLE). Recognized by the Ministry of Education, Israel for professional education credits.

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