#jedchat is coming – and you are it! The first #jedchat synchronous twitter chat for Jewish educators will be held Wednesday, October 26 at 9pmET. What is #jedchat? In short, it’s professional learning and networking at your fingertips, brought to you by the collaborative team of Akevy Greenblatt (@Akevy613), Dov Emerson (@dovemerson), and Rabbi Meir [...]
Going to ISTE? Come on over to our annual Jewish Educators Network “Birds of A Feather” meeting at ISTE. We’ve been meeting for the past 11 years and look forward to reconnecting with old friends and new, including members of the AVI CHAI Day School Fellows and PELIE Technology Fellows in complementary education. When: Monday, [...]
So how about it? What if we reconceptualized Jewish education and provided more opportunities for learners to connect by interest, not by age or where they are in their so-called life stage. Ever notice how people in our community are often defined by their age and/or their family status – when do you get to [...]
Years ago, at one point in my tenure at JESNA, I was the director of the National Educational Resource Center (yes, NERC), a forerunner of today’s Sosland Resource Center at JESNA. NERC housed published and teacher-made curricular resources which we made available or provided citations for, as appropriate. We regularly received requests from central organizations [...]
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