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Interview with Susan Yammer

Susan Yammer is a member of the course development team and teacher for JOLTT, now the Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy. She is also a pedagogic coach for graduate education students at the Pardes Educators Program and teaches on Young Judaea Year Course. Before...

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A Tunisian Skills-Based Program

Levi Cooper teaches at the Pardes Instititute of Jewish Studies and is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah. He is a post-doctoral fellow in Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law. Rabbi Dr. Cooper is a Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. The notion of focusing on...

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21st century Jewish day schools

Dr. Jon Mitzmacher is the Head of Galinsky Academy [which includes the DuBow Preschool, the Martin J. Gottlieb Day School (a K-8 Schechter), the Bernard and Alice Selevan Religious School, and Makom Hebrew High] Jacksonville, FL, and part of the Jacksonville Jewish...

Collaborative e-Books: Empowering students through publishing for a global audience

Letter from the Editor

Technological advances have given us unparalleled control over our environment and have helped us conquer space. The world is a global village; we can physically travel to places unthinkable previously and digital communication enables instantaneous communication...

Collaborative e-Books: Empowering students through publishing for a global audience

Programming with Mishnah

Claudia Marbach teaches Toshba in the JCDS (Boston) Middle School. Claudia Marbach discusses using technology in the context of her Mishnah class. JCDS Boston is a pluralistic K-8 school in suburban Boston. My overall teaching goals in this school are to expose the...

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It’s All About Asking the Right Questions

Gary Hartstein is Director of DigitalJLearning Network, an initiative of The Jewish Education Project with funding from the AVI CHAI Foundation. Gary Hartstein explores what technology can contribute to education by looking first at learning and educational needs....

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Teaching Torah for the 21st Century

Ronit Ziv-Kreger is a School and Learning Design Consultant to several Jewish day schools in the Boston area, including The Binah School and Cohen Hillel Academy. Dr. Ziv-Kreger is also a consultant to the Combined Jewish Philanthropies’ initiative to reinvent...

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