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Who’s in Charge?
Making Hebrew School More Like Summer Camp David Bryfman I frequently get asked the question of how to make Hebrew...
Learning, Doing, Being
Jewish Education and the Prefrontal Cortex Joel Lurie Grishaver I was at a gathering put together by the Covenant Foundation...
They Shoot Teachers, Don’t They?
Joel Lurie Grishaver Here they are again, folks! These wonderful, wonderful kids! Still struggling! Still hoping! As the clock of...
Hebrew School as Camp
Joel Lurie Grishaver School Metaphors Schools use metaphors to know who they are. For a long time the “Hebrew School”...
The “Do It Like the Public Schools” Fallacy
Joel Lurie Grishaver Somewhere in a box of books I have an early 1950’s book on Sunday school that tells...
Lessons in Jewish Educational Leadership from an Airline Pilot
by Josh Mason-Barkin (cross-posted to Josh’s blog) For the past three years, a big part of my job at Torah...
A Serious Ennui
If the 1960s Hebrew school is really a thing of the past, then 1960s textbooks need to be a thing...
The High Distinction of the Melamed
by Joel Lurie Girshaver When I went to graduate school the term was “teacher proofing.” It was thought that such...
Not So Sure About Woocher’s “New Approach”
by Joel Lurie Grishaver Jonathan Woocher is chief ideas officer at JESNA (Jewish Educational Service of North America) and director...
“Hineini”
by David Singer David Singer, a student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University, is...
Why Textbooks Are Important
The re-thinkers and re-visionists and re-imaginers are coming for your textbooks. That’s right. They want to remove the textbooks from...
Altneu Non-Shul — The Sunday School for Jewish Studies
by Joel Grishaver Started around 1970 by some Harvard professors, just about the same time some other Harvard faculty started...
Helping to Make Schools That Work: A Publisher’s Response to...
In the last couple months, you may have noticed Torah Aura Productions using a new mission statement: “Making success in...
Self-Paced, Point & Click: The Jewish Problem with Progr...
by Joel Lurie Grishaver Programmed Instruction There is a growing fantasy in Jewish education that everything will be better if...
Spending Wisely in Difficult Times
We’re hearing from a lot of schools that the difficult economic situation is having a profound impact on Jewish education....