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We are grateful to the
Freedman Family
for their generous matching
donation of $36,000
Total $ raised
Your support made a difference!

The Leo Baeck Day School thanks all those who supported its first annual campaign, "GetSMART". Overall, we raised $72,000 in honour of Leo Baeck's 36th anniversary, including the Freedman family's matching donation. We thank them for their support, commitment and generosity. This sum will allow us to make enormous improvements in our use of technology in the classroom.

One of our key campaign goals was participation. It was not about how much you gave but that you did give! We wanted to achieve our goal together as a school and as a community. One of the ways our team wanted to encourage this was to recognize the class(es) with the highest participation rate and the results are in: Nursery at the North Campus and a tie between 2A and 6B at the South Campus. Yasher koach, and many thanks, to these classes!

We're Getting SMARTer

We ordered 10 new SMARTBoards for the school, all of which are installed now. Five of the new SMARTBoards are dedicated to the SK classrooms, as the Technology Advisory Committee felt that our younger students would benefit greatly from SMART technology.

As well, the North Campus is the home of our first moveable SMARTBoard, with which we intend to experiment for all sorts of functions: assemblies, religious ceremonies, even gym classes. In addition to the 2 LBPA-funded SMARTBoards installed at the start of the year in the South Campus, this means we have added 12 new SMARTBoards this year alone. We are so excited to give so many of our students – and teachers – the opportunity to use this technology in the classroom.

Overall, this campaign has expedited our ability to reach our technology goals and we are much closer to achieving them. Over 60% of our classrooms at each campus now have access to SMART Technology!

MAJOR SUPPORTERS

Jeremy Freedman and Judith Finer Freedman

  • Almark Sales & Imports Limited
  • Gordie, Sharon (Neiss), Josh, Adam
    & Olivia Arbess
  • Michael, Holly, Georgia & Charlie Bellman
  • E. Steinberg & H. Brodie
  • Chaitons LLP
  • Lori & Jordan Cohen
  • The Davis Family: Michael, Laurie,
    Hannah, Lee & Noah
  • Alan Gutmann &
    Lori Unger-Gutmann & Family
  • Jay, Randi, Amanda &
    Brandon Lewis
  • Danny & Jill Morris
  • Jordan & Jillian Robins
  • Fern Glowinsky & Ian Sandler
  • Schwartz Levitsky Feldman
  • Anonymous Donors

Thank you to the Leo Baeck Board of Directors, North and South Campus parents, North and South Campus teachers and administration and to everyone else who supported the campaign.

More, Better Macs

Along with our investment in SMART technology, we've also been gifted $35,000 by the LBPA for further technology initiatives and are so appreciative of the LBPA’s continued support. We have used these funds to boost our use of educational technology and for relevant staff professional development. To this end, we've bolstered our two roving computer labs at each campus to have 12 Mac laptops apiece (one for every two students in a classroom), replaced a full third of our staff laptops with SMART-compatible versions, and invested in one new SLR camera per campus for Yearbook. We will also be holding staff training sessions on the use of SMART technology, to help teachers get the most out of their SMARTBoards.

A special thank you to Randy Cass and Mark Litwin, Development Committee Co-Chairs, for their leadership, counsel and support of this campaign.

Many thanks again for your generosity and your commitment to Leo Baeck. Your dedication to the school, along with your incredible contribution to technological innovation in the classroom, is remarkable.

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