Essential Elements

Schools funded by Hebrew Public agree to implement all of the following essential elements of our school design. These elements are critical to our mission of growing the national Hebrew language charter school movement, as well as to our commitment to creating and supporting academic excellence in our charter schools.

Academic Excellence: Create an academically excellent instructional program for all students by leveraging the best practices of the workshop model, differentiated instruction, and team teaching.
Hebrew Language Instruction: Provide immersive Hebrew language instruction every day and to all students.
Culture and History of Israel and its Immigrant Communities: Integrate the Culture and History of Israel and its Immigrant Communities into the overall curriculum to better teach Hebrew language and culture.
Diversity: Serve the full range of students in their communities.
Service Learning: Make service learning and community service a central element of the educational program to help students internalize the values of social responsibility and understanding of diverse cultures.
Relational Capacity: All Hebrew-Public-funded schools must exhibit a strong “relational capacity” to work with Hebrew Public, in that they share a common vision for Hebrew language charter schools with Hebrew Public and other schools in the Hebrew Public network. Hebrew Public expects that its grantees, once authorized, represent themselves as being Hebrew Public network schools.
Shared Ownership: Hebrew Public schools will work in partnership with Hebrew Public to plan, start, and run their schools. Schools will take ownership for their charter process and help identify and cultivate funding partners to help make the school sustainable.

Academic Excellence

We believe that the following practices provide powerful support to academic success for all students and work in synergy with Hebrew Public’s essential elements of school design.

Workshop Model: Students work in a variety of settings: whole group, small group and individually. Teachers plan activities along with small direct teaching opportunities to make sure students are active in their own learning and master learning objectives.
Differentiated Instruction: Teachers assess students’ mastery of subject matter and regularly design learning activities that meet students where they are and move them to identified learning goals.
Team-Teaching: Hebrew teachers are utilized throughout the instructional day by team teaching in content-area classes. In this way, students are exposed to content-area instruction in both English and Hebrew.

Support for schools

Hebrew Public seeks to support our schools in implementing the essential elements of our school design. Key services include:

Planning Group Assistance: Community engagement professionals help planning teams learn about our Essential Elements of school design, enlist potential allies, develop outreach plans to attract interested families and assist groups in understanding the charter school planning process. Planning groups are invited to submit grant requests to support their planning activities, which will then lead to the submission of a charter application. Grants are awarded on a quarterly basis.
Proactive Embedded Professional Development: Our Directors of Educational Services scaffold resources to grow the capacity of planning groups and school leaders. Hebrew Public provides comprehensive professional development in order to assist schools in building the capacities to implement our model. We provide facilitation and guidance through all phases of the school development process, from helping to orient new teachers and the creation of a school culture to assisting in leadership training for lead teachers.
Participation in the National Hebrew Language Charter School Network: Affiliated schools and funded planning groups are invited to participate in our networking activities. These activities include an annual institute focused on the Hebrew charter school movement and summer development sessions where teachers are trained in the proficiency approach and the workshop model.
School Leadership Training: Through direct coaching, school-based Directors of Curriculum and Instruction are guided in how to support teachers in realizing the essential elements of our school design.
Hebrew Public’s Grant Program: Hebrew Public requests proposals for grants to support all stages of school development. Grant categories include development grants, planning and startup grants, as well as a vanguard school award to support excellent practice as schools mature.

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