The Summer Sandbox Schedule!

What’s your Dream for Jewish Education?

The Summer Sandbox is a time for you, someone who is passionate about Jewish education, to get together with those who are like-minded in order to make a project you can implement in your educational setting. Using, as RealSchool does, lots of progressive learning models, you’ll get to experience the kind of lab environment that emphasizes hard fun, iterative prototyping, serendipity by design, failing forward, big dreaming, and democratic creation. In this way, the Sandbox is a space that echoes the ethos of JEDLAB.

DAY 1

9:00-10:00 am             Welcome and Orientation

                                                 You Mean I’m Allowed to Dream Big in Jewish Education?

 Moderated by Ken Gordon

10:15-11:15 am           What the Heck Is PBL and Other Critical Sandbox Questions

                                    and Answers                                    

11:20 am-12:15 pm     The Essential Question: What is It and What is Yours?

                                         

                  

12:15-1:00 pm             Serendipity by Design and The Coffeehouse: Big Ideas Brew

                                   

1:00-3:15 pm               Hard Fun: Iterate Your Prototype

                                    Include: content standards, integration of different subjects,

                                    student choice and more

                                   

Show and Tell on JEDLAB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/jdsmedialab/

3:15-4:00 pm               What is RealSchool?

DAY 2

9:00-10:00 am             Good morning!

            Democratic creation: Choose your own Q and A session:

                                   

                                    RealSchool from a Student Viewpoint

            PBL in the Judaic Studies Classroom

                                    PBL in the General Studies Classroom

                                    Digital Citizenship                   

10-11:45 am                What do Learners Have to Know and When do They Have to

Know It?: Calendars and Rubrics in your Prototype

                                   

11:45-12:30 pm           Beyond the Boy Scouts:

Badge Learning with Sarah Blattner of Tamritz Learning      

12:30-1:00 pm             The Coffeehouse

1:00-1:30 pm               Steal Ideas from our Project Exhibit and Book Fair

1:30-3:00 pm               Iterate Your Prototype

                                   

3:00-3:30 pm               Poke Some Holes: Get and Give Feedback

3:30-4:00 pm               Failing Is Good?

                                   

                                    Show and Tell on JEDLAB

DAY 3

9:00-9:30 am               Good Morning!

                                    Uh-oh: Someone Is Going to See This? Decide on a

                                    Presentation Mode

9:30-11:00 am             Finish Iterating Your Prototype

11:00-12:30 pm           Prepare Your Presentation

12:30-1:00 pm             The Coffeehouse

                       

1:00-2:00 pm               Project Fair

2:00-3:00 pm               Step Back and Assess

                       

Share Your Final Day’s Work on JEDLAB

How Will We Continue What We’ve Started at the Sandbox?

The Summer Sandbox will take place at Ma'ayanot High School
1650 Palisade Avenue, Teaneck, NJ 

To find out more about the schedule, please email Tikvah.Wiener@gmail.com.

The Summer Sandbox

RealSchool is an education reform program that has students engage in self-directed, collaborative, whole-person learning. This summer, RealSchool is giving all stakeholders in Jewish day schools the opportunity to experience RealSchool’s model. Whether you’re an educator, student, administrator, board member or parent, you’re invited to the RealSchool Summer Sandbox, where you can join a team of like-minded individuals and have the time and resources to “play and tinker,” that is, come up with a tangible project or event in your area of interest and return to your school ready to implement your new vision.

We’ve suggested team ideas in areas we know stakeholders are passionate about: student-driven and project-based learning; sustainability; digital literacy and citizenship; community-based learning; meaning-making in Jewish day schools; and school culture and leadership. We’d love for participants to create their own teams based on their interests as well. So get ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work on creating the school and classroom of the future! 

To learn more about RealSchool, watch our student-made video:

For more information about and to register for the Sandbox, visit this site: http://summersandbox.eventbrite.com. See you there!