Assessment and Evaluation: Tools for the reflective educational environment

Who Said Anything About Grades? Assessments WITHOUT Grades

Laya Salomon Ed.D is Assistant Professor at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, Yeshiva University. Her areas of focus are methods of teaching, curriculum, assessment, and differentiated instruction. Laya Solomon examines multiple uses...

Assessment and Evaluation: Tools for the reflective educational environment

Assessing for Success

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...

Editor’s Introduction

Editor’s Introduction

The young man was bright, creative, energetic and sincere. I had taught him for a number of years in high school and was visiting him in his post-high school year in Israel in a very prestigious Yeshiva in Israel. Faced with significant intellectual challenges he was...

Editor’s Introduction

Kol HaOt’s Illuminating Experiences

David Moss considers himself a “mitzvah beautifier.” He works in diverse media including calligraphy, illumination, papercuts, sculpture, wood, prints, artist books, architecture, pottery, drama, education programming and others. He created The Moss Haggadah, and...

Editor’s Introduction

Judaic Arts in the Judaic Studies Curriculum

Dr. Shimshon Hamerman is Head of School at Solomon Schechter Academy (Montreal). See the related article, "Sample Projects at Solomon Schechter Academy", here. Shimshon Hamerman articulates a theory of arts education which he implements practically in his school. The...

Editor’s Introduction

Sample Projects at Solomon Schechter Academy

Dr. Shimshon Hamerman is Head of School at Solomon Schechter Academy (Montreal). See the related article, "Judaic Arts in the Judaic Studies Curriculum", here. Israeli stamps exhibition Objective: Teaching about people and cities in Israel. A novel way to teach Israel...

Editor’s Introduction

Everything I Know I Learned … From Ehud Banai

Robbie Gringras is the Artist-in-Residence for Makom, the innovation place for educating about Israel and the Jewish People. He creates content for Makom, runs their website www.makom.haaretz.com, and is an independent playwright and performer whose works have played...

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