It took nearly a full school year for Kfir Giet, the new head of Boys Town Jerusalem High School’s Information and Communications (ITC) department, to actually meet his 200 students in person when the COVID-closed campus finally reopened. Now, free of the challenges of “remote” teaching, Giet is moving at lightning speed in his mission […]
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“I never gave up on a student,” says newly-retired Shlomo Serok, the award-winning Boys Town Jerusalem instructor renowned for changing the face of Israeli technological education. The nearly 2,000 BTJ students Serok has taught over the past 40 years, leaders in hi-tech, IDF, education and Israeli society, are vivid proof of the faith he placed […]
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Long after school is out at Boys Town Jerusalem, and often late into the night, the lights remain on for one student hard at work in the Cisco Computer Networking laboratory. “I learn by myself. I need my freedom,” says 11th grader Benjamin Heiman, who lives and studies in the school. Fortunately, his teacher Shlomo […]
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