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Post LGA our 200+ alumni have attended**:

• Middle and High Schools including: The Academy at Charlemont, The Bement School, Deerfield Academy, Eaglebrook School, Hebrew High School of New England, Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy, The MacDuffie School, Northfield Mount Hermon, Stoneleigh-Burnham School, and The Williston Northampton School.
• College and Universities including: Barnard College, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carleton College, Carnegie Mellon, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, The Culinary Institute of America, Elon University, Emory University, Hampshire College, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Kenyon College, McGill, NYU,, Northeastern, Oberlin, Smith College, Stanford, Swarthmore, Tufts, University of Chicago, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Washington University, and Wesleyan University.

**We are happy to provide a full list of schools by request.

Derech LGA inspires students, faculty, families and staff to “Love your neighbor as yourself” through song and discussion:

To facilitate the learning of these principles, Felicia Sloin, LGA’s former music educator of ten years composed a song with lyrics that cover these seven tenets.

Derech LGA

Oh Lord, I thank you
For this new day
So many possibilities
May my words and my actions
Bring out the best in me

Now no one one’s perfect
Sometimes it’s easy
To forget and lose my way
But I’ll remember
By singing this song
About Derech LGA

Shalom (שלום) is peace – I’m a peace maker
Chesed (חסד) is kindness – I’m a giver not a taker
Kavod (כבוד) is respect – for myself and for others
B’tichut (בטיחות) is safety – taking care of one another
Kenut (כנות)is honesty – it’s true communication
Shituf pe-ulah (שיתוף פעולה) – it’s about cooperation
Achrioot (אחריות)- it’s my responsibility
To treat you, the way, I want you to treat me.

(lyrics — Felicia Sloin; melody — Gospel)