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Tovanot B'Hinuch

Lod, Center District, Israel • 9 Employees
Nonprofit Organization Management

Tovanot B'Hinuch (literally translated as Insights in Education) is an innovative and unprecedented social venture based on the premise that it provides the tailwind school principals need to generate an educational – and social – revolution in the educational centers led by these principals. This venture focuses on public schools in Israel's urban and geographic periphery, in deference to the importance of their work.Tovanot B'Hinuch assists principals in developing a conception of social entrepreneurs and leaders, working to create a total response for the needs of students scholastically, emotionally and socially. In this way, the school turns into the main stronghold in the students' lives and the community surrounding them, making the school a source of inspiration. The venture is operated by setting up action committees and creating partnerships with the Ministry of Education, Local Authorities, industry, security and defense institutions, the third sector, the academic world and numerous volunteers.Tovanot B'Hinuch was established in 2011 by Karen Tal (recipient of the Bronfman Prize for Education; for many years the principal of the Bialik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv), and a core of founders, top executives from the Israeli economic sector.VisionWithin five years, the venture will include 20 schools in the urban and geographic periphery throughout Israel, which will reach a level of educational and social achievements that will make them a source of inspiration, and a role model for expansion on a national scale.Goals• Designing the school as a major stronghold in the students' lives and in the surrounding community, providing a suitable, total response to scholastic, social and emotional needs.• Creating a partnership for change – educational and social – which makes it possible for: the school principal and his staff to generate a dramatic turnaround in the school; the students to change their launching pad for life; civil society – companies,