News & Announcements

Welcome to the weekly E-newsletter, which we’re calling the “Etone,” which happens to be - fun fact! - the Hebrew word for newspaper (with an electronic nod to “E”). Every week the AEC Head of School will send out an Etone, including highlights of the week, important upcoming dates, community news, and much, much more!

As part of our annual Veterans Day program, our Kindergarten - 5th grade students welcomed military guest speakers via Zoom. The day started with a recorded version of our traditional flag raising ceremony with renditions of the Star Spangled Banner and Hatikvah performed by AEC Upper School students Hindy Cole and Ariela deLeon.

Fall is finally here with the beautiful changing colors of campus foliage and students bustling through the halls in Lions sweatshirts. This newsletter features several fall-themed stories as we head into the middle of this unusual school year. Thanks to the shared commitment of everyone in the AEC community, we have been fortunate to...

AEC has seen its share of heroes since the COVID 19 crisis hit the world and impacted our school community. Among them are AEC faculty, students, and parents who continue to work - since the close of school - to assist those in the greater Las Vegas community who are in need of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).

This week, I am about to complete sixty or so sessions I’ve had with staff. In each one, I learned about what they do at the school, about their program, about their students, how long they’ve been at the school, what they did before they came to the school, and anything else they thought might be useful for me to understand about them.

As our national election has taken center stage this week, our Junior Kindergarten - 5th grade students participated in their own elections. Students learned about the democratic process and exercising their right to vote. Below are the engaging activities and exciting elections that they participated in on Election Day 11/3.

Thank you to the many students and parents who attended last week’s special presentation by Doug Fodeman on the Social Dilemma. As a school that seeks to empower students with the appropriate use of today’s powerful technology tools, the presentation helped to illuminate our thinking about the benefits and challenges of social media.