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Tech-i-ya 5.1

Adrian A. Durlester We’re back with another year of Tech-i-ya, looking to share with you tips for making the best...

What I am Reading: Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching W...

Vicky Kelman  Green, Elizabeth. Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to teach it to Everyone). W.W. Norton and...

The CHUTZPAH IMPERATIVE: a Book Review

Joel Grishaver Part One   Jon Landau, famously wrote, “I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce...

Survey” The Situation: It’s Not Always What You Think

Debi Swedelson Mishael (Advanced warning: This is a trick question.) Which of the two students in this picture is on...

The Stories We Tell

Idie Benjamin and Dale Sides Cooperman Once upon a time, a long, long time ago…. Humans are story tellers. From...

JEDLAB Update

Peter Eckstein The summer of 2014 saw a continuation of the shift in the culture of JEDLAB. Yes, for many...

Was it Really That Bad?

Joel Grishaver A few weeks ago I wrote a blog entry “Redemption or a Service Industry,” One of my friends...

What I am Reading—It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Netw...

Vicky Kelman Well, it is complicated….but maybe not as much as we feared. An addiction? danah boyd (she prefers her...

Tech-i-ya 5.1

Adrian A. Durlester Sorry for the hiatus between my last column and this one. As far as this school year...

JedLAB: Why Kids Care More about Achievement Than Helping Ot...

Peter Eckstein A recent discussion in the cloud based JEDLAB community was in response to a posted article entitled: “Why...

Mitzvah—The Whole Story

Idie Benjamin and Dale Sides Cooperman What is a mitzvah? It is a word we use with children all the time....

When First Base is as Good as a Home Run

Joel Lurie Grishaver It all started with the word “engagement.” As soon as it was on the table—we began adopting...

PrayerTech

  What is PrayerTech? PrayerTech is a multiplatform integrated system for facilitating student development of Hebrew prayer comprehension and performance skills. Students...

Pesah Art That Goes Beyond the Seder Plate 2

by Laurie Bellet The other day, I gave a group of early childhood teachers a wonderful way to make charoset dishes...

The History of American Hebrew Teaching—How We Got Here

Joel Lurie Grishaver Shandeh School and Talmud Torah From the mid-twenties forward, there were three kinds of Jewish education for...