RealSchool: Giving students the reins

RealSchool: Giving students the reins

Tikvah Wiener is Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies, Chairman of the English Department, and an English and Art History teacher at The Frisch School in Paramus, NJ. Tikvah Wiener launched a club in her high school in which students form teams to direct their...

RealSchool: Giving students the reins

Teaching Independence, Starting with the Teacher

Rabbi Maccabee Avishur served as the Dean of Judaics at the Frankel Jewish Academy. Azaryah Cohen teaches at the Frankel Jewish Academy and serves as Induction Leader in charge of the mentoring and peer coaching program. Debbie Wrotslavsky is the Director of...

RealSchool: Giving students the reins

Student Empowerment: A student’s perspective

Daniel Bonner, a graduate of Levine Academy and Yavneh Academy in Dallas, is student president of the Columbia/Barnard Hillel. Daniel Bonner shares a student’s perspective on his experience in a high school which sought to empower students. Rarely does a day go by at...

RealSchool: Giving students the reins

Areyvut

Daniel Rothner is the founder and director of Areyvut. For the last 10 years Areyvut has worked with schools and educators to incorporate more hesed, tzedakah and tikkun olam programming in their settings. From the outset the goal of Areyvut has been to ignite a...

RealSchool: Giving students the reins

Choices for Children: Why and how to let students decide

Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. He is the author of twelve books, including Feel-Bad Education...and Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling (2011); The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing...

RealSchool: Giving students the reins

An Ethos of Empowerment

Levi Cooper is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah and teaches Jewish studies at the Pardes Institute and other university level programs in Israel. Rabbi Dr. Cooper is Contributing Editor to Jewish Educational Leadership. When we walk into our classrooms, we enter with a matrix...

RealSchool: Giving students the reins

Jewish Education Is Empowerment

Ismar Schorsch is Chancellor Emeritus, the Jewish Theological Seminary. The word empowerment in an educational setting has an edge to it. Lifted from the argot of politics, it challenges the hierarchical structure of the educational establishment, demanding something...

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