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Assessing The Lessons Learned As 10th Anniversary Nears Featured
This article from The Jewish Week culls reflections on the lessons of 9/11 from agency heads, rabbis, victims’ families, & students, as we approach the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Eco-Jewish Education -- How to Make It Effective Featured
The author discusses the range of ways in which environmental issues are integrated into Jewish education curricula. He identifies four elements of experiential education that involve students' relationship to their learning experience: 1) each other; 2) their teacher; 3) their curriculum; and 4) their physical setting. The author provides examples of Jewish environmental educational approaches which incorporate these elements. In Jewish Education News, Summer 2008.
Experiential, Environmental Education: A Natural Connection Featured
Experiential environmental education includes awareness, interconnectedness, and responsibility. It is usually taught to our children only upon request, once or twice a year, by guest educators who come to the classroom to do specialized programming. We need a rethinking and reshaping of how these teachings can enhance the Jewish educational system, beginning with the current curricula in rabbinical schools and Jewish teacher training programs.
JETS (Jerusalem EdTech Solutions) Featured
JETS (Jerusalem EdTech Solutions) was founded by former North American Jewish educators currently living in Israel who combine to bring a wealth of experience in Jewish studies instruction, curriculum development, and staff development, along with a deep understanding of North American Jewish and general education. In addition, the Jerusalem location of JETS provides access to educational materials and methodologies developed in the vast Jewish educational infrastructure in Israel, the opportunity for on-site development to bring Israel into Diaspora classrooms and communities, and contact with a significant pool of capable former Diaspora Jewish educators who have moved to Israel.
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Jewcology Featured
Jewcology is a project of graduates of ROI (http://roicommunity.org), who have come together to create a resource for the entire Jewish-environmental community. Jewcology incorporates collaboration from a wide range of Jewish environmental leaders and organizations worldwide. This project was funded by the ROI Innovation Fund.
The long-term goal of this project is to build a multi-denominational, multi-generational, regionally diverse community of Jewish environmental activists, who are learning from one another and from an expanding set of Jewish-environmental resources, how to educate their communities about our Jewish responsibility to protect the environment.
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Resources for Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 Compiled by UJA-Federation of New York Featured
A variety of resources for Jewish educational settings to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11, compiled by the UJA-Federation of New York.
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Sept. 11, 2011 - A 10th Anniversary Perspective Featured
A collection of Jewish resources on teaching & commemorating 9/11 from the Partnership for Jewish Life & Learning. Links include themes from weekly Torah readings, themes appropriate for the opening of school, service learing ideas, and myriad others.
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Teaching 9/11 | Why? How? Featured
This guest post in the New York Times Learning blog discusses the importance of teaching 9/11 in schools, particularly as the 10th anniversary of the attacks approaches. The post is authored by two educators explaining why they believe 9/11 should be taught in school.
Pamela Moran is the superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia and president of the Virginia Association of School Superintendents. Ira David Socol, a graduate student in the College of Education at Michigan State University, consults on curriculum and use of space in schools.
The 9/11 Tribute Movement Featured
This site is co-sponsored by MyGood Deed, The HandsOn Network, and Repair the World. Site includes a wealth of tools & resources for classroom & educational engagement in commemoration of 9/11. Students & teachers may watch and post videos showcasing their tributes, post on the blog, and browse a variety of engagement tools that other groups & classrooms around the country are sharing.
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YouTube Teachers' Channel Featured
YouTube's new teacher channel is a guide for K-12 educators for using video in the classroom. Teachers can follow tips that show everything from organizing videos to sparking lively discussions to help struggling students through videos. Teachers can also sign up to become part of the YouTube Teachers Community, a mailing list that allows them to share ideas and best practices.
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"This New Month" - JCC Association's Early Childhood Curriculum Initiative
This site provides information related to the Jewish months and encourages JCC early childhood educators to exchange ideas about teaching techniques, curriculum development and related monthly themes. A team of early childhood educators and Jewish education specialists provides information about each month and insight into early childhood education practices and theories. The site also features songs, activities, recipes, an d and early childhood message board.
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12Tribe Films Foundation
12Tribe Films Foundation ("12Tribe Films") is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting creative projects about the Jewish people and the land of Israel that connect, entertain, and inspire. As the name of the organization suggests, our creative projects address Jewish issues, with a greater focus on the Jewish values that connect us as a whole. While the projects of 12Tribe Films address religious, political, sociological, and current events effecting Israel and the Jewish people, our goal is to be an informative and educational resource that focuses on the underlying Jewish values and human experiences beneath the issues.
We specialize in providing movies and cultural programs that show a side of the Jewish and Israeli narrative that receives little attention in the public discourse today. Whether you're with an organization, synagogue, temple, camp, or community ...
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4Teachers.org
An indexed collection of online material made by teachers for teachers, the site includes tools and resources for professional development and integrating technology into the curriculum, such as Web Worksheet Wizard (create a worksheet, lesson, or class webpage) Trackstar (develop annotated online lessons that guide students through select sites); and, Quiz Star, (design custom quizzes that learners can take online); other tools include rubrics and checklist for Problem Based Learning, and more.
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@jesna.org - Autumn 2001
The autumn 2001 issue of JESNA's former newsletter, both print and electronic.
@jesna.org, Fall 2001 (969.51 kB)
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A Lexicon of Learning
Ever wondered what educators mean when they refer to "authentic assessment" or "Bloom's Taxonomy"? Education, like all professions, has a specialized vocabulary that parents and others may have a difficult time understanding. ASCD's online resource, A Lexicon of Learning, provides clear definitions of educational terms in everyday language.
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After Ed
After Ed TV is a web-based video channel produced by EdLab at Teachers College, Columbia University. New content is published weekly, including news, documentary, and editorial segments. After Ed TV is syndicated - you can get code to put our syndicated player on your website - and available for free. EdLab produces weekly content for After Ed TV, supports collaborative production at Teachers College, and invites submissions. We publish content for students and teachers of all ages who want to better understand the education sector and the changing nature of education.
Teachers College, with its research and teacher preparation missions, is a resource of diverse and innovative thinking about education and advancements in the understanding of learning. After Ed's mission is to organize this knowledge production and bring it to the attention of a new audience attuned to the pos ...
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AJL's Jewish Valuesfinder
The New Jewish Valuesfinder, published by the Association of Jewish Libraries, is a free, online, and easy-to-use guide to Jewish values in children's books. Its an ever-expanding database currently lists over 550 books recommended for preschool through high school. Each book is analyzed for the Jewish values it contains, as well as for its content areas. The database can be searched by author, title, illustrator, publisher, Jewish values, subjects, grade level, and year of publication. A book bag feature allows lists of selected titles to be printed and used as bibliographies. Another very useful feature is the descriptive and critical note that accompanies each title. AJL's New Jewish Valuesfinder is for teachers, librarians, clergy, parents, and everyone who cares about what Jewish children read.
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American Jewish Archives
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives is committed to preserving a documentary heritage of the religious, organizational, economic, cultural, personal, social and family life of American Jewry.
The Archives was founded by the late Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus in 1947 in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. It was created at a time when the Jews of America, now the largest and best educated Jewish community in history, faced the awesome responsibility of preserving the continuity of Jewish life and learning. For over a half century, the American Jewish Archives has been preserving American Jewish history and imparting it to the next generation.
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American Jewish Historical Society
Founded in 1892, the American Jewish Historical Society’s holdings include 20 million documents, 50,000 books, paintings and other objects that bear witness to the remarkable contributions of the American Jewish community to life in the Americas from the 16th century to the present. Among the treasures of this heritage are the first American book published in Hebrew; the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus’ The New Colossus, which graces the Statue of Liberty; records of the nation’s leading Jewish communal organizations and important collections in the fields of education, philanthropy, science, sports, business and the arts.
The mission of the American Jewish Historical Society is to foster awareness and appreciation of the American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservatio ...
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An Ethical Start
An Ethical Start™ is based on the book “Pirkei Avot - Ethics of the Fathers”. It is an educational program developed to teach Jewish ethics and values to preschoolers. An Ethical Start™ was developed by the Jewish Community Center Association, which was funded in part by the Steven Spielberg Righteous Persons Foundation.
The program is developed through exploration of the text, “Ethics of Our Fathers,” environmental enhancements, multi-media exploration through music, books, Peer K doll and the emergent curriculum. It is implemented in various JCCA preschools nationwide.
This innovative program enhances and deepens family commitment to the learning and practice of ethics and values. The six areas of focus consist of the following values: responsibility, dignity, kindness, community, tradition and respect. An Ethical Start& ...
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