Yeshivos struggle to motivate excellence in General Studies. The Torah speaks to every facet of life, therefore we can teach a comprehensive and intellectually stimulating General Studies curriculum through the lens of the Torah. Machon Menoras Hachochmah guides students to perform above peers in standardized statewide testing, reinforce values learned in Torah classes, and respond to secular perspectives.
For teachers to best present dynamic lessons, they must be:
- Instructed in the Machon’s dual curricular methodology
- Trained in advanced educational modalities
- Harness technology and cloud-based resources
- Consistently collaborate with colleagues
- Secular Content with Torah Lens
- Preparation for the 21st Century with Educational Technology
- Classroom Management and Behavior with Task-Oriented Education
We value career
readiness, student
engagement and
proven results.
Machon Menoras Hachochmah’s General Studies curricula are thoughtfully aligned with national Common Core standards. This ensures that yeshiva students do not sacrifice academic excellence as their commitment to Torah and its values are reinforced.
- Electronic Resources: Course readers, worksheets, teacher guides, and multimedia material are made available in digital form in order to create multiple options for dynamic classroom integration.
- Scaffolding: All material produced by the Machon is designed to accommodate for the gradual learning process. This allows students the excitement of tangible growth in writing, reading, and critical thinking over the course of their high school education.
- Differentiated Instruction: Alternative assignments are incorporated into each lesson plan, allowing for teachers to meet student’s individual needs.
- Online Forum: All participating educators nationwide collaborate in a custom forum designed to support best practices and sustain each curriculum’s continuous improvement.
- Development and Beta Testing: All courses are developed and initially deployed by the highly trained educational experts at Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore.
- Pilot: Following the infancy period of each course within the Mesivta, the Machon partners with a small number of select schools that help further enhance and refine the material.
- Growth: The Machon’s Torah-based curricula is promoted through peer networks that will continue to play a supporting role as the program is spread and adapted across North American yeshivos.
Addressing yeshivos’ most pressing challenges
Machon Menoras Hachochmah
The Machon is committed to tackling the most pressing challenges facing students, parents, and administrators today. Through our multitiered and research-based approach, we have isolated the necessary ingredients required to enable talmidim to feel a greater sense of shleimus in their daily lives.
Torah Lens
By addressing the challenges of secular content presented in many of today’s General Studies courses, the Machon has produced curricula that present relevant information and teach crucial skills through a prism of Torah values.
Educational Technology
With a sense of purpose, understanding of value, and feeling of ownership for one’s work, talmidim enrolled in Machon courses experience their education as active participants and not as passive listeners.
Task-Oriented Education
Through the use of dynamic educational tools, cutting edge technologies, and tested methodologies, the Machon has constructed a course of study that will prepare talmidim for the challenges of the 21st century while developing a sense of digital citizenship.
Pipeline
Annually expanding our product
Conceptual Phase = Initiation of the course idea
Developmental Phase = Course creation and development
Alpha Phase = Course has been (or currently is being) tested at Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore
Beta Phase = Course has been (or currently is being) tested in select partner schools
Launch = Course is available to all Machon partner schools
Course
- Conceptual Phase
- Developmental Phase
- Alpha Phase
- Beta Phase
- Launch
Language Arts
History
Science and Mathematics
Staff
Meet the minds behind Machon Menoras Hachochmah.
Rabbi Avrohom Feldheim is currently the Menahel at Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore, a yeshiva high school that he founded with his father, Rabbi Tzvi Mordechai Feldheim, in 2017. The Mesivta has already achieved great acclaim for both its rigorous and high-level learning in the morning and its innovative educational program in the afternoon. Rabbi Feldheim received both a BTL and an MTL from the Talmudic University where he also served as a Rebbe and the Assistant Menahel of the Mechina of South Florida. After learning at both the Jacob Joseph School in Edison and Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, Rabbi Feldheim became a talmid of Rabbi Tzvi Kaplan at Yeshivas Kodshim in Jerusalem. Known for his creative educational approaches, Rabbi Feldheim has developed a unique curriculum encompassing thousands of worksheets on the high school level that incorporates both cooperative and project-based learning. This program helps bochurim understand the structure of the Gemara and ultimately gives them the skills and tools to learn independently. Rabbi Feldheim can be reached at: AFeldheim@TheMachon.org
RABBINIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Machon Menoras Hachochmah is under the Rabbinic Auspices of the Rosh Mesivta of Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore, Rabbi Tzvi Mordechai Feldheim, Shlit”a
Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer, Shlit”a
Mara D’Asrah of Shearith Israel Congregation and President of the Vaad HaRabbanim of Baltimore
Rabbi Sholom Kamenetsky, Shlit”a
Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky, Shlit”a
Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington
