Professional Development Resources: Student Engagement

Teaching Spirituality in Day Schools and Yeshiva High Schools

This article deals with the form that curriculum and instruction for spirituality may take. To read the article, click here. Read more

Integrating Special Needs Children Into the Jewish Day School System

This article originally appeared in Ten Da’at 7, 1, 1993, pp. 20-21. Reprinted here with permission. There has been much discussion, controversy and speculation concerning appropriate... Read more

Being a Web-Mensch: When Jewish Values and Technology Coincide and Collide

Do you fear that your students’ ethical sense disappears when they “log in?” The Internet offers infinite resources, but its use carries a responsibility... Read more

Motivation as the Linchpin in the Developmental Lesson

The first in a series of articles exploring the structural elements of the developmental lesson.   This article originally appeared in Ten Da’at 1:11... Read more

Real Siddur Teaching: What I Know about Prayer Education

This article explores ways in which to motivate students to involve themselves in communal Jewish prayer in a regular way, presently, as well as... Read more

Is There Life After Homework?

This article originally appeared in Ten Da’at, Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1989, pp. 29-30. Appears here with permission. “Abba, you must help me with... Read more

The Joy and Celebration of Learning

First Thoughts – The Illusion Neal Gabler (2002), the social critic, notes that for decades observers have been saying that Americans live in the... Read more