Dr. Steve Bailey was co-founder of Shalhevet High School (Los Angeles) and a researcher, author and consultant in Jewish education, specializing in moral education and curriculum projects. He is a professional development workshop presenter and Co-Director of Quality...
Debbie Niderberg is the co-founder and Executive Director of Hidden Sparks. Prior to coming to Hidden Sparks, Ms. Niderberg served as the Executive Director for The Nash Family Foundation. Rona Milch Novick serves as the Co-educational Director of Hidden Sparks and is...
Dr. Moshe Sokolow (msokolow@yu.edu) is the Fanya Gottesfeld-Heller Professor of Jewish Education at the Azrieli Graduate School of Yeshiva University. This paper is an outcome of a project entitled: “Reclaiming Interpretation” that was funded by an ignition grant from...
Ken Firestone, MSW, DSJS is an educational consultant, teacher and adjunct professor at various colleges and educational settings in the mid-Atlantic region. His primary area of academic interest and research is in the field of Jewish intellectual and religious...
For more than a decade, the Pardes Educators Program has prepared teachers to teach in day schools in North America. The alumni are teaching in the full gamut of day schools – Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Non/cross-denominational Community – and often bring a...
Q: What’s the difference between a good student and a poor student? A: The poor student listens in class, takes notes and studies furiously before the test to remember everything – and forgets everything the minute the test is handed out to the student. The good...
See the survey questions here. For this issue of the journal we conducted a survey of day school educators. Using SurveyMonkey (www.surveymonkey.com) we created a simple anonymous questionnaire, which we sent to 185 educators. We received 65 responses, yielding a...
Sharon Freundel is the Director of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital. She also gives regular adult education classes at the Georgetown Synagogue in Washington, D.C., and teaches Tanach, Jewish philosophy and...
Sally Mayer teaches Talmud and is a mentor at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem. She was a member of the core faculty at Ma'ayanot Yeshiva High School for Girls (Teaneck, NJ), and was Education Director at The Jewish Center in Manhattan. Sally Mayer shares her...
Aliza Libman Baronofsky is a teacher of Chumash and dean of eighth grade students at the Maimonides School in Brookline, MA. She also teaches math and serves as the middle school math coordinator and enjoys writing lessons uniting Torah U’Mada – general studies and...
