Beit Midrash Fellows create a personalized, intensive, learning opportunity.

The High School’s Beit Midrash Fellows Program has dynamically translated the traditional chavruta system into a modern co-educational context of “small group” learning. It is the only one of its kind in a Yeshiva Day School. Comprised of post-college women and men, Americans and Israelis, who “learn” among themselves and with the students, the Beit Midrash Fellows create a serious, spirited, individualized study environment where students form small study groups, based on levels of ability, in order to learn Torah. These group sessions enhance what occurs in the larger setting of a classroom.

Challenge Options provide the opportunity for subject specific advancement

How do you get students to think at a deeper and more critical level? Challenge Options, an innovative approach to “enrichment,” are designed to encourage students to move beyond their comfortable learning limits by deepening study in areas such as Gemara, Tanakh, Biology, Geometry, Algebra, Language Arts and World History. Challenge Options, which are entirely elective, are not recorded in high school transcripts. The goal is to encourage a sense of scholarship — nurturing a love of learning for its own sake. It is not uncommon for students to select more than one subject for intensive study and mastery.

Each semester an emerging artist is chosen to take up "residence" at the school, mentoring a group of students who work with him or her on a special project. This collaborative effort enables students with similar interests in art to work together and share in the creative process. Upon completion, the final work becomes part of SAR's permanent collection.  

High School Advisories provide academic support and connection with peers

Every High School student is part of an “Advisory”—a small group that meets on a regular basis with a faculty member. Advisors monitor the academic progress of each student, ensuring that he or she is appropriately challenged and that individual needs are addressed. Advisories form small communities of trust, leadership, and guidance within the larger community of SAR High School.