BPY welcomes Moshe Azizollahoff as our new director of technology. Moshe brings with him tremendous IT expertise, including experience with iPad integration in school settings, learning management systems, databases, servers, networks and educational technologies. He will manage BPY’s technology systems and provide internal IT support, as well as work closely with the junior high school faculty in iPad integration. He will focus on using technological tools to empower, stimulate, and inspire student-centered learning, and to provide teachers with new ways to facilitate that learning.

Ben Porat Yosef has added a number of exciting enhancements to our current science and STEM program, including augmenting the position of our science specialist, Jean Myers, who will now be at BPY full-time. The number of weekly science periods for our elementary and junior high school students is being increased, and new STEM and inquiry-based learning initiatives in our pre-k and kindergarten classes are being implemented. Science classes for our early childhood and elementary school will take place in our new, fully-equipped “Science and Discovery Room.”

Beginning this year, the Junior High Advisory Program will be run by Rebecca Hirschfield, General Studies Principal who joined BPY last year, and Rav Tomer Ronen, Rosh HaYeshiva. This will foster closer connections between the students and the school’s lead educators. With an awareness of the many transitions that our students face as they enter and go through junior high, Ben Porat Yosef has also expanded the Junior High Advisory program. The program is designed to prepare them for high school. Each week students in the junior high school will have time which will be dedicated to addressing issues that are relevant to the unique developmental issues of that grade.