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Miriam Heller Stern

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Dr. Miriam is the director of the school of education at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and Incoming CEO of Builders of Jewish Education, Los Angeles. You can explore her new framework for teaching and learning Jewish creativity more deeply in “Jewish Creativity: An Essential Aspiration for Jewish Education,”  Access Stern’s other writings on Jewish creativity, education and leadership here

Blog Articles

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

Hayidion Articles

The Value Proposition of Reform Day School

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Why should Reform Jews choose day school? And why does the Reform movement need day schools? To some, the answers to these

Lessons from Pixar Studios: Staying Animated in Leadership

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Leaving a meeting wondering what was accomplished. Staring at the screen trying to decide where to begin. Ticking the easy items off

When Creativity Nourishes the Mind, Soul and Heart

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A group of sixth graders fans out around the school building with their smartphones, in search of God. Their teacher, a professional

Column: Embracing the Practical

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In 1969, University of Chicago Professor Joseph Schwab famously declared the field of curriculum “moribund.” Textbooks and lists of great works alone

Having Faith in Sports

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At the end of a long workday, I dragged my heels up the staircase to the cafeteria of my children’s day school

Column: A Very Good Listener

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Being a “very good listener” is one of the highest forms of praise a kindergartner can receive from her teacher. “Emily is