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...
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...
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...
Rabbi Allen Saks (asaks@brauser.us) is a veteran administrator and teacher. He is currently a faculty member at Brauser Maimonides Academy in Hollywood, FL. Allen Saks describes how a classroom crisis forced him to reinvent himself as teacher who empowers his...
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...
Dr. Hana Bor is an Associate Professor of Jewish Education and Director of Master of Arts in Jewish Education and Master of Arts in Jewish Communal Service at Towson University (Baltimore, Maryland). Hana Bor examines Emergent Curriculum as a model for empowering...
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...
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...
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...
Dr. Moshe Krakowski is an assistant professor at The Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. Dr. Juli Kramer is the Principal of Yeshivat Sha'arei DAT High School (YSD) in Denver, Colorado and an Adjunct Professor in the...
