Teaching and Learning

How to Stand at a Memorial Ceremony

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Teaching and Learning

Israel’s Independence Day: A Celebration Built on Remembrance

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Teaching and Learning
For an American teenager, the back-to-back observance of Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzma’ut may seem unfamiliar. However, understanding the connection between remembrance

Le’ovdah Uleshomrah: Protecting the Earth Through Love, Not Fear

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Teaching and Learning
As educators, we have a responsibility to provide stability, security and opportunities for growth to our students. If we bombard them with

Supporting JNF’s Tree Planting Campaign for Tu’Bishvat in our Jewish Day School

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Teaching and Learning
A story of how Lehrman Community Day School, a pluralistic school in Miami Florida celebrates Tu'Bishvat

Complexity and Nuance to Strengthen Jewish Educational Excellence

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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
Chanukah is a time of contrasts. The victory of the Hasmoneans over the Seleucid Greeks is encapsulated in the Al HaNissim prayer

Balancing More and Less to Strengthen Jewish Educational Excellence

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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
How might we combine excellence and high standards with inspiration and connection? If lighting Chanukah candles presents a model for lighting the

Resilience Through Creativity to Strengthen Educational Excellence

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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
For millennia, Jews have responded creatively to their circumstances. After destruction, renewal. In the face of denial of the Jewish historical experience

Teaching Holistically to Strengthen Jewish Educational Excellence

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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
The past fifteen years have transformed our understanding of children and what they need to thrive. Our post-Covid and post-October 7 realities

Educating for Curiosity to Strengthen Jewish Educational Excellence

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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
We know from the learning sciences that curiosity enhances memory encoding and consolidation, fuels intrinsic motivation, supports exploratory behavior, and improves attention

Lifelong Learning to Strengthen Jewish Educational Excellence

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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
One way to strengthen Jewish educational excellence in our day schools is to devote a much larger chunk of instructional time to

Active Participation to Strengthen Jewish Educational Excellence

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Professional Leadership, Teaching and Learning
Strengthening educational excellence in our Jewish studies classes means teaching sacred texts in ways that promote high levels of student engagement, critical

Producer vs. Consumer: A Lens for Setting Educational Goals

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Teaching and Learning
While looking into various graduate school options, I learned a lot about the difference between PhD and EdD programs, including the difference