Focus On - What We Teach

• Helping Jewish Schools to Become Caring Learning Environments by: Chana Zweiter
• Social-Emotional and Jewish Education: Core concepts and effective practice by: Jonathan Cohen
• Developmental Stages and the Jewish Studies Curriculum by: Stanley Peerless
• Some Misunderstandings of Piaget and the Curriculum by: David Elkind
• Ethics, Ideology, and Curriculum by: Hanan A. Alexander

From the Editor

• Looking In by: Shalom Z. Berger

Features

• Reflections on Leadership by: Jeffrey R. Woolf
• From the Classics: The Revenge of the Letters and Vowels by: Levi Cooper
• Review of New Educational Materials- Dapim LaMe’ayein V’LaMoreh by: Tsipi Keller
• Discussion: How to Get Johnny to Read and Think by: Devora Steinmetz, Steve Bailey, Pinchas Zuriel Hayman

Applications

• Action Research Report on an Approach for Creating Meaningful Tefila Experiences in Middle School by: Eric Golombek
• Curriculum Development in Jewish Day Schools- How Can We Make it Work? by: Eli Kohn
• Curriculum Developed and Implemented in Various School Settings by: Deborah Miller, Bruriah Michman, Dan Be'eri, Susan Tanchel, Joel Lurie Grishaver