Jul 8, 2008 -- For nearly four decades Rabbi Franklin “Fischel” Engelberg has been an educator in both Judaic and general studies. Today, as principal of Yeshiva Toras Emes Kamenitz in Brooklyn, NY, Engelberg oversees students in pre-K through high school. He previously served as principal of the Mirrer Yeshiva high school and is an adjunct professor at Touro College. Recently, the Brooklyn resident graduated from Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration and spoke on behalf of the doctoral candidates. “After the many years of guiding and counseling my students and my own children, my message for them was ‘to be all that they could be.’ I finally convinced myself to heed my own advice. How could I expect them to set lofty goals for themselves while I shortchanged myself? I had to be true to myself and be a role model for them. This is what brought me back to school.” Rabbi Engelberg’s dissertation was a statistical analysis of standardized reading and math scores among fourth graders in yeshivas, public schools, and Catholic parochial schools in the New York City area over the last five years. He found that although the yeshiva math scores were highest among the three groups, their language arts scores were not. While he leaves the explanation for the phenomenon to other researchers, he has found through experience that using computers for instruction raised reading scores over that five-year period, and he plans to increase in-service workshops for his teachers to address standards and methods of curriculum delivery. Rabbi Engelberg credits Azrieli for helping him become a more effective administrator and understanding and caring principal. “I have acquired time management and supervision skills from courses offered at Azrieli that have contributed to my becoming a better school leader, organizer and adviser to faculty, students and parents.”