Models of healthy, open, frank conversation in public or private discourse are all too rare. In public discourse, what little evidence of listening that we do hear is primarily in the service of stockpiling rhetorical…
Teaching the Whole Child by Evaluating Students’ Voices
Eliana Lipsky spent a year researching and co-teaching a Humash class. She shares her findings about using religious studies to teach the whole child. Introduction To teach the “whole child” necessitates that we understand that child, including being attentive...
Critical Literacy and 21st Century Jewish Day Schools
Eliana Lipsky (etlipsky@gmail.com) is an Ed.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at Loyola University Chicago researching authentic student inquiry in the Modern-Orthodox Jewish day school Tanakh class. Jennifer K. Shah (jennybshah@gmail.com) is an Ed.D. student...