With generous support from the Consortium for Applied Studies in Jewish Education and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University, the [...]
By Danielle Segal Pirkei Avot: the pithy Buzzfeed of our Jewish tradition. Want life-hacks on pretty much anything? You will find some wonderful words of wisdom in Ethics Of The [...]
By Joel Seltzer Last summer, due to the generous support of donors and foundations, and because of the vision and collective will of our camp leadership, Camp Ramah in the [...]
By Tamara Rebick One week before the inauguration, I was asked where I thought the Holocaust fits into Jewish education today. In my professional role, Jewish education is experiential, informal [...]
According to the research brief, Leaders as Learners: The Case for Continued Professional Development - prepared by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) on behalf of the Consortium for Applied Studies in [...]
By Gabrielle Kaplan-Mayer 1 in 5 human beings has some kind of disability - including learning, developmental, physical, emotional or a combination of disabilities. And yet, while disability is such [...]
By Amanda Pogany To successfully educate the whole child we need to believe that social/emotional development is just as important as cognitive development. That it’s just as important for a [...]
By Rachel Ackerman Dear Parents and Guardians of Children with Special Needs, Thank you. Thank you for sitting down with me and our religious school teachers to walk us through [...]
By Maccabee Avishur I was recently on a call with the board president of a Jewish school who is considering conducting a Head of School search sometime in the near [...]
The Jewish Teen Funders Network (JTFN) is accepting applications for the 4th cohort of its Foundation Board Incubator. The Foundation Board Incubator is an initiative from JTFN, funded by Laura [...]
By David Shukiar When you walk into the social hall at Temple Adat Elohim in Thousand Oaks, CA, on a Tuesday evening, you’re met with a cacophony of sound coming [...]
By Steve Freedman Jewish day schools across the country share a mission to educate as many Jewish children in their community as they can. They also share the challenge of [...]
