What We Want for Every Child
September 14, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, Last night at Curriculum Night, I shared a few thoughts about what we want for every child at Mirowitz and the priorities guiding our work this year. I wanted to share those reflections with our entire community as we continue this exciting...
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Creating Intentional Joy
August 30, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, Monday we had Bounce Back, the day before the first day of school when families come to meet their new teachers. The event was celebratory and spirited. Friends who hadn’t seen each other for hours, days, or months gallivanted all around the...
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A Charge to our 2026 8th Grade Graduates
June 1, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, Nine years. For some of you — most of you — nine years in this building. That is not a school career. That is a childhood. And tonight, that childhood officially has a last chapter. Not closing paragraphs, per se, but writing...
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Moments That Tell Our Story
May 18, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, As we approach the final weeks of the school year, this edition of Mah Chadash feels especially full — full of celebrations, milestones, memories, learning, laughter, gratitude, and the unmistakable energy that comes at the close of a meaningful school year. In many...
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What We Remember and Who We Are Becoming
April 19, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago. I am not Jewish. And yet I have carried the weight of this history for most of my life. This felt especially present this week as I observed our students learning about Yom HaShoah. Through...
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Living the Story of Pesach at Mirowitz
March 29, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, There are moments in the calendar that ask more of us than remembrance. They ask us to feel, to reflect, and to reimagine who we are and who we are becoming. Pesach is one of those moments. This year, perhaps more than ever,...
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Reflections on ISACS Accreditation Visit
March 16, 2026
Dear Friends of Mirowitz, Earlier this week we concluded an important milestone in the life of our school: the accreditation visit from the Independent Schools Association of the Central States. For three and a half days, a visiting team of experienced educators and administrators spent time here...
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Real Growth at Mirowitz
February 27, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, I want to pull up a chair with you for a moment. This week we received our winter NWEA MAP results. And before anyone tightens up at the word “test,” let me say this as clearly as I can: This is not...
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A School on the Move
February 17, 2026
Hello Mirowitz Community, I hope and wish that you can see what I see: Mirowitz gaining altitude, creating real momentum for our students past, present, and. future. There are weeks when you feel the school moving. Not loudly. Not dramatically. But steadily. This is one of...
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Come Walk These Halls With Us!
February 2, 2026
Dear Mirowitz Community, A love letter to our St. Louis Jewish community Listen—there are moments when a school needs to lean into its community and say, with full heart: we need you. Not just as supporters or cheerleaders, but as messengers. As amplifiers. As people who believe...
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