Rabbi Jeffrey Schrager is the Middle School Judaic Studies Coordinator for the Akiba Academy of Dallas, Texas. Jeffrey Schrager explores cognitive theory, how it explains our experiences with text, and how we can employ it in developing an approach to teaching Tanakh....
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...
Rabbi Elchanan Jay Weinbach is the Executive Chairman of Project Kodachrome, a non-profit venture developing Blended Learning curriculum and alternative school models, and Principal of the Great Schools Consulting Group. He has served as Head of School at Kohelet...
My first year as a teacher was a deeply challenging experience. Armed with a rabbinical degree and a few graduate courses which provided me with some knowledge of educational theory, I found myself having to make it up as I went along. I made lots of mistakes in those...
Rabbi David Jaffe is the Mashgiach Ruchani at Gann Academy. He created and directs the Chanoch LaNa’ar initiative. David Jaffe describes how a modern adaptation of the traditional study of mussarimpacts on students and faculty, and the relationships between them....
Rabbi Barry Kislowicz, Ed.D. is Head of School at Fuchs Mizrachi School in Cleveland, OH. Barry Kislowicz reflects on how disappointment with the results of an in-service led to the emergence of a dramatically different model of professional development in his school....
Amy Ament is the Associate Director of JNTP, where she trains and supports new teachers and mentors, and an adjunct faculty member at Stern College for Women’s Education Department. She also co-authored a Bible curriculum for JOFA entitled Bereishit: A New Beginning –...
Azaryah Cohen currently serves as Director of Jewish Studies at the Frankel Jewish Academy in West Bloomfield, Michigan and is a member of their “Education Leadership Team.” He previously served as the Director of Education Leadership team overseeing new teacher...
Amira Soleimani is the Head of the Bible Department at the Frankel Jewish Academy. Amira earned her B.A. at the University of Michigan and received her M.A from Tel Aviv University in Talmud. Rabbi Peter Stein teaches Bible and Rabbinics at the Frankel Jewish Academy...
Dr. Hana Bor is the Director of the MA in Jewish Education and Jewish Communal Service at Towson University. In this article Hana Bor describes how a summer learning program for teachers became the springboard for ongoing professional development in a congregational...
