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Poetry Contest
April is National Poetry Month and we are celebrating and kvelling*! We are so excited to announce that FOUR PJA students are winners of the 2020 Cascadia Poetry Contest for Oregon’s K-12th grade students.
Academics
Portland Jewish Academy students receive a well-rounded education, which helps them develop into children with character who become tomorrow’s leaders. Our rigorous academic programs foster a love of learning by focusing on both critical thinking and creativity. Each subject, lesson, experiment and field trip is treated as one part of an equation that creates a child who is curious about the world and brave enough to explore it.
Spotlights on Programs at PJA
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“Postcards from a Pandemic”
Sixth Grade Humanities students have been keeping a digital diary of sorts about this unprecedented time in our lives. Each student is asked to post a daily image and caption to capture how life is changing in this time.
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Distance Learning
What a whirlwind this has been! It was only a couple of weeks ago that the PJA administration team recognized that we were headed into either a voluntary or mandatory school closure in the near future. Our tech experts - Matt Rosenberg and Matthew Dalton - mobilized quickly to get the technology in place and to train our teachers for distance learning.
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PJA's Art Studio
PJA’s art program which begins in the Early Childhood years (read last year’s Spotlight on that program here) continues in the Lower and Middle School with a focus on Teaching for Artistic Behavior (TAB). Lower School classes spend one period a week in the art studio. Middle Schoolers can elect an art exploratory each trimester...