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Harvard Summer Programs: Meet Etan Dov Weiss
by Deborah Fishman | Aug 19, 2016 |
This summer, Jewish day school leaders unlocked new leadership skills at two programs of the Principals’ Center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This is the first post in a series highlighting thoughts on leadership and the Jewish vision and mission of day...
Things I Learned Teaching an OJSC Course
by Guest | Aug 11, 2016 |
During the past year, I have had two opportunities to teach a Judaic studies course online through the Online Judaic Studies Consortium (OJSC). I hope my personal experience will be informative to those of you who currently engage in this kind of teaching and...
From Anti-Zionism to Anti-Semitism: An Educators Conference
by Guest | Aug 3, 2016 |
Cross-posted from eJewishPhilathropy When Rachel Beyda, an undergraduate economics major at the University of California, Los Angeles, was nominated for the Judicial Board, she did not anticipate being castigated by her peers for her Jewish identity and affiliations...
Personalized Learning – Where We Are and How We Got Here
by elik | Jul 7, 2016 |
This post was originally posted on the MOFET Jewish Portal for Teacher Education. By Eli Kannai For a long time, educational technology was focused, to a large extent, on the use of computers (and later the internet) within the classroom. Educators spoke about...
Empowered Jewish Giving: Hannah Senesh Community Day School Pioneers Jewish Day School Giving Circle
by Guest | Jul 6, 2016 |
Cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy [Angie Leiber, the development director at Hannah Senesh Day School, is a recent participant in Amplifier’s Jewish Giving Circle Incubator. The Incubator helps individuals and and professionals representing their organizations...
Connecting Research to Practice
by Guest | Jun 30, 2016 |
By Michael Feuer A dedicated community of scholars, education leaders, and funders is working to build new bridges and roads to connect good research to the problems and challenges of Jewish education. This vision forms the basic rationale for CASJE – the Consortium...
Going to ISTE 2016?
by Guest | Jun 24, 2016 |
The 2016 ISTE Conference will take place June 26-29 in Denver, Colorado. The premier education technology conference, ISTE will bring together 16,000 educators and 500 companies and feature 1,000 sessions. Are you going to ISTE? The below cross-post from Tzvi...
A Look Back at Nadiv – What Have We Learned for the Future?
by LeahMeir | Jun 15, 2016 |
This post is cross-posted from eJewishPhilanthropy By Ramie Arian, Leah Nadich Meir, and Steven Green Five years ago, the Nadiv program was launched as an innovative pilot program involving six camp-school partnerships whose primary objective was enhancing and...
Mazal Tov to Pardes Day School Educators Program Cohort 15
by Deborah Fishman | Jun 10, 2016 |
The Pardes Day School Educators Program (PEP) graduated its 15th cohort last week. The two-year program combines intensive text study at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies with a Master of Jewish Education from Hebrew College. The graduates will go on to fulfill...
Announcing a Partnership with BetterLesson to Bring PersonalizedPD to More Day Schools
by Guest | Jun 6, 2016 |
The AVI CHAI Foundation and BetterLesson have recently agreed to a partnership to support 140 teachers in North American Jewish day schools to develop their capacity to bring blended and personalized learning strategies to their...