Opening Excellence Classes in Amit School Network

The Amit School Network is the second largest charter school network in Israel with 46 secondary schools, mostly for Jewish religious students. Amit collaborated with the foundation to increase the circle of excellence in mathematics and physics (two grants totaling 4.2M NIS in 2012 and in 2015), resulting in more than doubling the number of […]

Online Mathematics Championship

During this school year, students spend extended periods at home, and their learning depends, largely, on their own motivation. In the absence of school routine, they must organize their schedule and self-regulate their studies. The learning of mathematics under these circumstances is especially challenging, as it requires ongoing effort, practice and perseverance. In a survey […]

Cities of Excellence Network

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system in Israel has experienced an upheaval. It immediately closed and moved to distance learning and later to hybrid learning with frequent transitions and mixes of in-school and home-based learning. During this period, the central government has been struggling to provide schools with coherent regulations and […]

Opening Excellence Classes in Hadera

The city of Hadera, in the northern Sharon region of Israel, is home to 97,000 residents. Its school system serves 23,000 students, of which about 7,000 study in eight middle and high schools. Traditionally, the city emphasized democratic and humanistic education and had no special focus dedicated to excellence in mathematics and the sciences. In […]

Establishing a group of outstanding math and science teachers

Secondary school science and mathematics teachers are at the heart of the foundation’s work and our efforts are designated to attract talent, nurture their skills and assist these teachers in improving their practice. Therefore, consulting with and engaging teachers in the foundation’s work is a cornerstone of our developing DNA. We believe that gaining the […]

Promoting Excellence in high school science and mathematics

There is a wide variety of factors influencing the level of performance of science and mathematics students in Israel – including among others, student and parent motivation, access to quality teaching, and incentives provided by government and universities. Achieving sustainable improvement in this area therefore is a complex goal which goes far beyond the capacity […]

Trump Master Teacher Award 2018

The Trump Master Teacher Award was launched in 2012 in order to recognize and celebrate excellent teaching of mathematics and the sciences. The award aims to identify master teachers of these subjects and expose them to the public as role models for high quality teaching practice in Israel, thus stimulating discussion around the question: ‘What […]

Study Visit to the US

One of the ways in which the Trump Foundation strives to expand the circle of five-unit mathematics and science students is by creating partnerships and system-wide support networks for excellence in teaching and learning at scale. Over the past two years, the foundation has collaborated with five school networks – ORT, Amal, AMIT, Darca and […]

Implementation of new Pisa based tasks

The 2020-2021 school year is a transition period in the foundation’s roadmap for middle school. New excellence classes will open and the new learning material developed by the foundation’s programs will be tested. The new material comprises dozens of innovative tasks, aligned with the top levels of PISA framework. They include a portfolio of assignments […]

It’s Time for Education’ Digital Magazine – 2021

Established in 2014, “It’s Time for Education” has become the largest digital magazine in Israel specializing in education, with 382,000 unique users in 2019 and 48,000 followers on Facebook. The foundation created the magazine as its digital arm in order to interact with teachers and education proponents around the values of excellence in education and […]

Digital Campus for Self-learning by Secondary School Students

The Israeli public education system is facing enormous challenges due to implications of the Covid-19 pandemic. Schools are struggling to maintain continuity and mitigate the effects of growing gaps. Hectic transitions between lockdowns, quarantine and learning pods make it almost impossible to give students a quality learning experience. Under these challenging circumstances and reduced class […]

Leadership Course And Seminars For Mathematics Coaches And Teachers

Teaching mathematics in middle school focuses on procedural fluency and technique needed for later stages of learning in high school. In recent years, the Ministry of Education upgraded the curriculum in order to smooth the transition between middle school and high school. This change included elevating the levels of mathematical thinking in middle school and […]

International Online Conference About PISA

PISA research was launched in 2000, bringing the concepts of reasoning and applying knowledge to real-world contexts to the center stage of education.  PISA uses the word “literacy” to encapsulate the nature of this skill. It advocates a shift of focus by education systems from a traditional inward-looking perspective that prefers basic, pure and procedural […]

Online Mathematics Summer School For Ninth Grade Graduates

The summer school aims to close learning gaps that were created during school closures, and help ninth grade graduates prepare towards the five-unit track in mathematics. The program will operate over 10 days, three hours a day, integrating between teaching curricular material and studying applied mathematics. Students will be able to participate in a learning […]

Online Mathematics Summer Camp For Ninth Grade Graduates

The Federation of Local Authorities in Israel, which is a nonprofit umbrella organization of the municipalities in Israel, is proposing to create an online mathematics summer school. The program will be offered in two cohorts, each over five days, three hours a day, for 2,000 students across the country. The educational content will be developed […]

Opening Two City-Based Excellence Classes

In 2017, the foundation approved a three-year grant to collaborate with the municipality of Umm al-Fahem in an ambitious attempt to double the rate of its five-unit track graduates in mathematics. Umm al-Fahem is an Arab city in Northern Israel comprising 60,000 residents. In 2017, only 7.2% of the twelfth grade students in the city […]

Implementation Of Applied Mathematics Assignments

The Education Ministry’s Central District is responsible for 320,000 high school students, who reside in 56 cities and study in 132 schools. In 2018, 21% of its twelfth grade students matriculated in the five-unit track in mathematics. This number signifies impressive progress which was an outcome of a multi-year effort by the District’s leadership, its […]

Teacher Training Program For New Mathematics & Physics Teacher

Within a month since social distancing measures have been imposed in Israel over one million citizens, constituting 25% of the workforce, are currently unemployed. Some of them are graduates of higher education institutions, with academic degrees in science or engineering. The current estimates of economists are that many of the new unemployed academics will struggle […]

Teaching Evaluation Instrument For Mathematics Tasks

The national mathematics curriculum for middle school focuses on procedural fluency and technique. However, in recent years it has begun introducing more applied aspects, such as problem solving and modeling, which require deeper thinking and understanding. Nevertheless, in practice, this new portion of the curriculum is marginalized as it is harder to teach and learn […]