Empowering Students: A “win-win” educational strategy

Empowering Students: A “win-win” educational strategy

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...

Empowering Students: A “win-win” educational strategy

Hevruta Study and Student Empowerment

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...

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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...

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Editor’s Introduction

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...

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Reporting on the Whole Child

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...

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Review, Repeat, Pinpoint Assess

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...

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The Point of Dispute

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...

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