It's been sixty days since Yeshivat Rambam announced their big changes. Tonight there is the followup meeting, one for ECC/ES, one for MS/MS.
At the meeting:
- details of the changes include the formation of the Executive Management Team, hiring a Rosh Yeshiva and an Executive Director.
- Executive Director will be responsible for finances, business, fund raising, marketing, building. Position not yet filled.
- Rosh Yeshiva also not yet filled.
- Executive Management Team includes Dr. Shloush, R. Lubetski, R. Wagner, the Rosh Yeshiva, Executive Director. Focus will be on consistency of message from the school, creating a warm, caring atmosphere and be proactive in responding to problems/questions.
- Hired a school nurse. Nurse will be on site four days a week and on call, available to BHU campus as well.
- Student First - this is the name for the focus on the "whole child." Focus on three areas: social/emotional, religious and academic.
- The school is pursuing professional and qualified rabbeim to fill out the limudei kodesh staff for all grades.
- Homework clinic, along with after school activities in science, art, dancing, exercise, adventure sports.
- Elementary school will be split into two floors: General studies will be upstairs, Judaic studies downstairs. Boys will have one in the morning (same everyday, not switching as it is now), girls will have the opposite, so they will be on different floors all day.
- Curriculum will stay the same, Tal Am will be further implemented. Teachers will receive training in separate gender education (something to do with Goucher College).
- Each grade will have a Mechnech and Mechanechet, a religious role model, available for questions, discussion (sounds like a guidance counselor/rebbe/mashgiach).
- The faculty-to-student ratio will remain low. Splitting the campuses actually allowed for teachers to teach more periods of the same class, which reduces their daily prep time, giving them more time to focus on a single lesson. This also allows the school to offer more academic choices to the students. As a example, the 11th/12th grade will have six science subjects to choose from next year, where as this year, they had only four.
- By all accounts, the plan is working so far. Enrollment is up for next year.
The Krispy Kreme in Owings Mills, which heretofore had been listed as kosher by the Star-K, but possibly certified kosher by the someone else, is now closed. When asked why they were closing, a person who answered their phone said, "We weren't making enough money." Hat tip to IG.
Krispy Kreme (KKD) was trading up nine cents on the news.