TAPBB result Pedagogy
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...
Parents Have Learning Styles, Too
Idie Benjamin and Dale Cooperman Sometimes the light bulb goes off, and we see something that has been staring us...
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...
Creating Torah Citizens
How Our School Develops a Community of Torah Readers by Debi Rowe In my synagogue’s Torah School, our students do...
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...
Ten Ways Textbooks Enable Programmatic Experiences
Last week, we discussed why we believe in textbooks, and articulated why we think they’re important. In that article, we...
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...
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....
Let Me Count the Ways: Finale
Since the fall of 1996 we have had the privilege of including Carol Oseran Starin’s column Let Me Count the...
A Textbook is a Collection of Programs
In honor of Israel’s 60th birthday (and the upcoming publication of Artzeinu: An Israel Encounter) we’re going to be taking...
Free Teacher Resources Now Available
Are you thinking of using God: Jewish Choices for Struggling with the Ultimate in your school? We now have resources...
No-Stress Teacher Training
Last Sunday, Joel and Josh spent the day at Congregation Beth Emek in Pleasanton, Calif. They worked with education director...