Chana German presents theoretical underpinnings of online education along with a practical guide for day school teachers and school leaders. A very brief overview of K-12 online education Although there has recently been considerable focus on online learning, it...
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...
This article was created by The AVI CHAI Foundation staff working in this area. They include Rachel Mohl Abrahams, Galli Aizenman, Steve Brown and Eli Kannai. The AVI CHAI Foundation has been at the forefront of support for Jewish education. In this article the...
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 –...
