News Archive: 2006-2007
"Watching new teachers at work"
"Next June, see if you can attend the annual DeLeT Portfolio Review. You will leave both inspired and convinced of the value of a Jewish day school education. …knowing what DeLeT is doing in producing teachers such as these can inspire all of us who value day school education and education in general." (The Jewish Advocate, Boston Mass., June 29, 2007)
Mandel Center conference awarded grant from Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
"In addition to learning with and from one another, the conference will promote the power and the potential of teaching among the participants. And most importantly, the [Conference on Teaching Rabbinic Literature: Bridging Scholarship and Pedagogy] will contribute to the development of the scholarship of teaching rabbinic literature - a sub-field of the scholarship of teaching that is in its infancy - through the publication of papers and presentations." (www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu, June 1, 2007)
"A decade of learning"
Looking back on ten years of Gann Academy in Waltham, and looking ahead to the future. Mandel Center Director Sharon Feiman-Nemser comments on the Mandel Center/Brandeis - Gann Academy relationship. (The Daily News Tribune, Waltham and Newton Mass., January 31, 2007)
"M.O.T. [Members of the Tribe]: Seeking success near and far"
Seattle's JTNews profiles recent DeLeT graduate Ilana Glosser. (JTNews, Seattle, WA, September 29, 2006)
"DeLeT answers call for teachers"
"What [Judy] Elkin [Director of DeLeT] finds most compelling about the program is that it is answering the call for better teachers. As DeLeT gains more visibility with more graduates spreading out across the country, Elkin receives more calls from schools desperately in need of Jewish teachers." (The Jewish Advocate, Boston Mass., August 25, 2006)
"Congregational Schools Focus on Teacher Training"
"Leaders in Jewish education agree that it’s time to focus more on the quality of congregational Hebrew schools — and a critical piece of that is teaching the teachers how to teach....[Pat Lukens'] teachers [at Congregation Kerem Shalom in Concord, Mass.] learned the technique of constructive peer observation at the nearby Boston-area offshoot of the Mandel Foundation’s Teacher Educator Institute." (The Jewish Daily Forward, August 11, 2006)
"Heading back to class to fill a void"
Day School Leadership Through Teaching Program of the Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis graduates eight in ceremony. (August 1, 2006)
"Jewish education program confronting shortage of qualified teachers"
(July 13, 2006)
"The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education: transforming the quality of Jewish teaching and learning"
(News @ The Mandel Foundation, Mandel Leadership Institute, Israel, July, 2006)