Welcome to the online panel discussion, in which Hillel Broder, CB Neugroschl, Ari Segal and Tzvi Sinensky, will be discussing Jack Bieler's "Open-Mindedness and the Yeshiva High School: Musings on the Range of Views to Which Our Students Should be Exposed." The...
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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...
Allowing the Whole Child to Encounter Our Sacred Texts
Ziva Hassenfeld adapts a theory promoted by Lev Vygotsky to Jewish text learning as she suggests a way to bring the whole child into that learning. Schools spend enormous time training students to read, write, and interpret texts. This activity is particularly...
Non-Cognitive Qualities All Educators Need to Know About: Grit, Mindset and Motivation
In this article, Debbie Niderberg and Hollis Dannaham bring to light some of the recent research on the importance of “grit” as a determining factor in student success. With ever increasing stakes for our day schools to retain students and amply prepare them for both...
Translating as Explanation: Havruta, Skill Development and Social Emotional Learning
TRANSLATION AS EXPLANATION: HAVRUTA, SKILL DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING JOSHUA LADON Joshua Ladon how using different modes of havruta learning can help to develop students’ social-emotional skills. In the past several years, scholars and practitioners of...
Seven Principles for Teaching Jewish Leadership
Rachel Levitt Klein’s dialogic essay underscores why teaching leadership should be an essential component of the day school program. “OK but how do you TEACH Jewish leadership? Don’t you just DO it?” said my tired colleague as soon as she heard I was about to pitch an...
Leadership and Followership in the Judaic Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities
LEADERSHIP AND FOLLOWERSHIP IN THE JUDAIC CLASSROOM: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Chaim Botwinick explores the possibility of teaching leadership through exploring Jewish sources and models. Today’s Jewish day school youth and Jewish educator are experiencing a myriad...
The Power of Reflection in Jewish Education
Ronit Ziv-Kreger focuses on how self-awareness and reflection can help students develop intellectually and personally. Experiential education is increasingly popular, but according to John Dewey, the American philosopher and education reformer, “We don’t learn from...