Reflections of a Head of School coach
Being a Head of School (HoS) isn’t easy. After all, today’s Heads are charged with creating and maintaining relationships with the teachers, students, parents, and board members; engaging in donor [...]
A Word of Caution Before Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month
By Lisa Friedman There’s a buzz in the Jewish Disability World. Can you feel it? A few weeks from now will mark the beginning of yet another Jewish Disability Awareness [...]
Implementing Project-Based Learning in Congregational Schools
By Ronit Ziv-Kreger How do we make Jewish learning relevant to students and meaningful to their contemporary lives? One approach is to embed the learning of content and skills within [...]
New Israel program for teachers addresses ‘remoteness’ in diaspora Jewish education
Photo courtesy Matan By Deborah Fineblum JNS.org For Shani Tauber, it all came together when her group left the house of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the religious Zionism pioneer known [...]
What Do YOU Mean by Learning?
By Beth Cousens What is education? How do we think of learning? In today’s blog post, we bring you a text study of sorts to share ideas from field leaders [...]
School will be about much more than education
By Paul Shaviv The school as one-stop center for the whole child One of my Jewish Studies teachers answered his doorbell one Saturday night. On the doorstep was a Grade 10 [...]
Jewish Education – A Progressive Challenge
By Neil Janes Some educational musings: I sense that most of our members in progressive synagogues understand now, perhaps like never before, that they are autonomous sovereign selves who can claim to create [...]
The Transformative Value of Fieldwide Teacher Collaboration
By Deborah Fishman Last summer, four day schools in the Midwest came together to explore a common challenge: how to differentiate instruction in a Hebrew classroom to meet the needs [...]
Call for Papers – Special issue of gamevironments: Jewish Gamevironments
The online journal gamevironments invites researchers to submit their work to gamevironments for possible publication in a special issue due for publication December 2017. Whether by console, PC, mobile phone, [...]
Living History: Yad Vashem conference on Jewish Identity, Holocaust offers new tools for teaching an aging subject
The "Krakow Menorah," a rare menorah crafted in Brussels which dates to the late 18th or early 19th century, was lit at a special candle lighting ceremony kicking off the [...]
Advancing Tolerance in Jerusalem: The Teachers’ Room
Israeli Muslim, Christian, and Jewish educators participating in ‘The Teachers’ Room’ at HUC-JIR. “Teachers in Jerusalem are on the front lines,” explains Dr. Michal Muszkat-Barkan, Director of HUC-JIR’s Department of [...]
Affirming Derekh Eretz on Inauguration Day
By Judd Kruger Levingston As school leaders, we have an opportunity to use the inauguration of the President of the United States to model civil discourse, citizenship, and moral education. [...]