Local Day Schools Win National Awards ● Cleveland Jewish News ● November 5, 2010
By ELLEN SCHUR BROWN
Editor, Family Section
Cleveland’s Jewish day schools were honored last week at the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education’s (PEJE) national assembly for Jewish educators in Baltimore.
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The Agnon School won two awards.
Headmaster Jerry Isaak-Shapiro won first place for “Inspiring Communications from a Head of School” for his column “Teach Your Children Well,” part of a newsletter distributed to parents and the community.
An Agnon video won the People’s Choice award for video marketing. Agnon alumnae Dana Leavitt, Allison Scharfstein and Danielle Weiss produced a video for the day school, which serves preschool through 8th grade, as their high-school senior project. View the video at http://tinyurl.com/3346no6.
Isaak-Shapiro was joined at the PEJE Assembly by board president Orry Jacobs, director of admissions Laura Simon, director of development Laura Leventhal, and director of marketing Kathy Peskin.
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