Ji Prime - A Partnership with your School

Becoming a Ji Prime School is an important investment. Jewish Interactive deeply values your partnership and strives to create the best experience for you and your school.

Establishing a Ji Prime partnership launches your school into an elite network of schools around the world that have invested in this area and are keen to make a mark. The Prime partnership involves all school stakeholders and can become a fundraising mechanism for your school and community.

Understanding the depth of a Ji Prime partnership is crucial to setting up a plan that makes sense for your curriculum and your school culture. Please take time to browse through these initiatives and let us know what your ideal Ji Prime Plan looks like.

HOW PRIME WORKS

Ji offers a full suite of services listed below. After a consultation, Ji will guide you through the process of selecting which of the services will be right for your school and put together a tailor-made solution.

Kellman Brown Academy, Voorhees, NJ, USA

Naima JPS, London, UK

Explore the concept of gamifying curriculum. Here we introduce Ji, explain the tools, platforms and Learning Management System. Teachers will explore content and learn ways to use interactive personal learning in their classrooms leaving them incentivized to implement gamified curriculum in their teaching.

Delve into game creation using the Ji Tap Game Creator. Train on the 6 interactive settings available to gamify curriculum and learn how to use them effectively to create games for your Hebrew and/or JS class. Explore Design Theory and how it relates to creating appealing and engaging games. Learn how to expand the game design process incorporating elements of PBL and J-STEAM.

In this workshop teachers will design and create a Ji Tap game(s) to fit their unit of choice. We will consider where and when it is appropriate to use different types of games. Teachers will produce a game to use in their classroom and acquire game design skills and the ability to teach game design to their students.

The Ji Tap parent workshop gives parents an opportunity to be a part of their child’s learning process and engage with their Jewish Studies progress. They will learn how to effectively utilize Ji Tap, how to access and assign games, the philosophy of gamification and how it affects their child’s learning process. The session will also address the challenges of using devices effectively and in a balanced manner.

Ji Tap family workshops provide the opportunity for parents and grandparents to play and create Ji Tap games together with their children. This type of workshop builds relationships and generates excitement about Jewish and Hebrew learning and can be repeated multiple times through the year, for example focusing on holiday themes.

Spread across an academic year, students will create a series of games for the Ji Tap home page. Using a PBL methodology each student will contribute to the team project to create a high-quality Ji Tap course for a global audience. Students will learn game design skills, instructional design methodology, variables, user testing rubrics and digital marketing skills.

Ji Tap student workshops brings a Jewish Interactive educator to your school to run a theme-based game creation workshop for a group of students.

Included with Ji Prime, this support service assesses how Ji Tap is being used in the classroom and suggests ways to improve and maximize the Ji Tap experience. Teachers share their experience of using Ji Tap and learn from each other.

BRANDED GAMES AND CREATION PACKS

Ji Tap School Branded Game Series & Creation Packs

As a Ji Prime School you have access to top of the line Jewish Interactive Game Creators. You can choose to have part of your curriculum gamified by the Ji expert design team who will produce a series of professional quality games.

Establish your school as a global innovation leader in the Jewish educational world. Your school’s content will feature on Ji Tap’s platform which is marketed and utilized in over 50 countries.

Branded creation packs – create games using school colors, logos and characters
1 year’s worth of Ji marketing on all social media platforms
Banner on Ji Tap (seen by hundreds of thousands of people annually)
‘Featured School’ status on Ji’s website
Premium access to Ji events and product opportunities

Ji staff will help you choose the perfect curriculum to gamify, create a branded cover page for your games and set up a plan to implement gamified curriculum into the teaching unit.

A Ji J-STEAM educator will consult on structuring a J-STEAM Lab, cultivating a J-STEAM culture in your school and promoting an interdisciplinary J-STEAM curriculum. Ji will create a comprehensive J-STEAM program implementation plan and support your teachers in coordinating and facilitating it. Your school will have full access to our K-8 J-STEAM curriculum and resources.

Training is provided on the J-STEAM curriculum and the tech involved. Topics covered include: ‘Applying the Engineering Design Process to Jewish holidays’, ‘Coding as the New Jewish Literacy’, ‘Teaching with Tech in the Hebrew Classroom’, and ‘Science Experiments Through the Parsha’.

Students will take part in innovative J-STEAM programming. Each J-STEAM workshop focuses on exploring a different piece of tech and teaches students functionality through a fun and Judaically informative lesson.

Teachers will learn how to use J-STEAM technology and introduce J-STEAM to young children. Our team will guide your faculty and parent body in how to integrate technology and coding in a developmentally appropriate way. Topics covered include: ‘Technology in the ECE Classroom’, ‘Livnot u’Lhibanot: Building Jewish Identity in the Makerspace’, and ‘Computational Thinking: No Screen Required!’.

At a Ji Tap Gameathon students will create a Ji Tap game with a specific theme and rubric. Students are divided into small groups and assigned roles. Coaches will assist each group with the game design process and at the end of the Gameathon there will be a judging protocol where each group presents their game to the judges and to their peers.

Jewish Interactive can help you run a J-STEAM art workshop or event. Examples of this are organizing and running a full day tech-integrated mosaic or building a tech-integrated sculpture or relief.

At a J-STEAM School Hackathon, students will be exposed to and trained to use a specific piece of tech. In small groups they are given a specific problem and rubric. Expert coaches will assist each group in the design process and advise on presenting and pitching. At the end of the Hackathon there will be a judging protocol where each group present their invention to VIP judges and to their peers. (Can be done in partnership with other schools).

Ji PRIME PACKAGES

Ji PRIME GOLD DELUXE
Your school can choose all or any of the options above.
Includes all travel costs.

Ji PRIME SILVER
A combination of 6 activities from the options above.
Not including travel costs.

Ji Prime - A Partnership with your School

HOW PRIME WORKS

Ji offers a full suite of services listed below. After a consultation, Ji will guide you through the process of selecting which of the services will be right for your school and put together a tailor-made solution.

BRANDED GAMES AND CREATION PACKS

Ji Tap School Branded Game Series & Creation Packs

Ji PRIME PACKAGES

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