KSDS Teacher Honored for her Commitment to Jewish Education

May 10, 2019 JMORE Staff

Lower school teacher Sally W. Grobani (center) is surrounded by KSDS students upon learning that she is the recipient of the Sam Kahan Distinguished Educator Award/Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. (Provided Photo)

Sally W. Grobani, alower school Hebrew and Judaics teacher at Pikesville’s Krieger Schechter Day School,was recently named the 2019 recipient of the Sam Kahan Distinguished EducatorAward/Grinspoon Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.

The award honors educatorswho strengthen Baltimore’s Jewish educational institutions, and is presented toa master Jewish educator who inspires both students and colleagues.

The award wasestablished by the family of the late Sam Kahan to honor his years of communityleadership and strong commitment to Jewish education. Kahan passed away in2009.
Grobani will be the community’s nominee for the national Grinspoon Award forExcellence in Jewish Education. The Kahan/Grinspoon award will be officiallypresented at the annual meeting of the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Center forJewish Education on Monday night, May 20, at the Park Heights Jewish CommunityCenter.

Nominees for theKahan/Grinspoon Award are evaluated on their ability to develop and implementcreative and engaging instructional activities; their willingness to shareresources and work collaboratively with others; their ability to inspire, motivateand challenge students; and their ability to represent Baltimore well on thenational educational scene.

“Sally Grobani lives andbreathes the values that are embodied in the mission of Krieger Schechter DaySchool and that we seek to transmit to each and every member of our schoolcommunity and the community at large,” said Wendy Gelber, KSDS’s lower school head.“We are honored to have talented, dedicated educators like Sally Grobani workwith our students every day. Sally inspires us to work each day to create abetter world through education and leadership.”

In January of 2017, Grobani was profiled in Jmore for donating her kidney to Jay Pintzuk, the husband of former KSDS teacher Brina Pintzuk.

“This opportunity just fell into my lap,” she told Jmore at the time. “If someone is in need and I am capable of helping them, I thought, why not?”