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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education
Mission: The avoda institute is an educational
Programs: The institute's middle and high school programs include a suite of four curriculum products for students in grades 6 through 12 attending jewish day schools, supplementary schools and other informal learning settings, such as community centers and summer camps. In addition to curriculum prodcuts, the institute provides a targeted educational consulting to principals and directors of jewsih schools that serve middle and high school age students.
advocacy: the institute partners with more than 20 local, regional and national organizations to foster an environment in which the arts can thrive and contribute to the creation of more meaningful jewish learning communities. The institute provides extensive research, information and professional development opportunities for community leaders, in order to motivate and movilize them to fund new arts-based jewish learning initiative. In addition, the institute is a founding partner of - and cont
professional training: the institute provides half-day and full-day professional development workshops that advance the arts within the jewish education community. Since the organization's inception, the institute has equipped more than 600 teaching professionals across the country with tools and techniques for integrating the arts more productively into the jewish classroom.