Teaching and Learning the Practice of Jewish Education Convening
May 5–6, 2019
Chair: Sharon Feiman-Nemser
This convening brought together people engaged in the professional development of Jewish educators to think about and work on the following questions:
- What can the "core practices" movement offer those of us working with aspiring and practicing Jewish educators?
- What are some core practices of Jewish education across different settings?
- How can we help Jewish educators learn to enact those practices in thoughtful ways?
Drawing from a variety of settings, including day schools, religious schools, camps, Hillels and Israel programs, we explored what program leaders want participants in their program to be able to do and how they help participants learn to do that.
Through working groups, demonstrations and presentations, we explored how different programs specify core practices and how they prepare people to enact them, and think deeply about how such professional learning happens.
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Topics
- Overview of Conference and Introduction to Core Practices — Jon Levisohn and Sharon Feiman-Nemser
- Analyzing a Core Practice in Action: Teaching Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) — Suzi Fonda
- Identifying and Unpacking Core Practices — Sharon Feiman-Nemser with Clare Goldwater
- Core Practices in Jewish Education — Panelists: Suri Ganz, Sheryl Katzman, Miriam Raider-Roth, Michal Smart
- Core Practices across Contexts: Small Groups
- Unpacking Core Practices: Partner Work
- Teaching Core Practices: Pedagogies of Enactment — Allison Cook, Orit Kent, Aviva Lauer Goldbert, Danielle Igra
- Teaching and Learning Core Practices: Revisiting the Template — Danielle Igra, Sharon Feiman-Nemser
Participants
- Charlotte Abramson, director of the Legacy Heritage Instructional Leadership Institute
- Lauren Applebaum, director of DeLeT at HUC
- Allison Cook, co-creator and co-director of The Pedagogy of Partnership
- Shira Deener leads the Jewish education program at Facing History and Ourselves
- Gail Dorph, founding director of the Mandel Teacher Educator Institute
- Deborah Skolnick Einhorn, associate dean for academic development and an assistant professor of Jewish education in the Shoolman Graduate School at Hebrew College
- Linna Ettinger, assistant director of the Early Childhood Institute of Hebrew College’s Shoolman Graduate School of Jewish Education
- Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor of Jewish Education at Brandeis University and was the founding director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education and the DeLeT program for Jewish day school teacher preparation
- Suzi Fonda, director of education and public programs at the Concord Museum
- Sharon Freundel, managing director of JEIC
- Suri Ganz, associate program director of JNTP
- Jennifer Ossakow Goldsmith, managing director of congregational learning and leadership initiatives at the Jewish Education Project in New York
- Clare Goldwater, director of partnerships and consulting at M²
- Dvora Goodman, educational consultant who works with educators in a variety of settings, including part time Jewish educational programs, day schools, camps and Hillel
- Wendy Grinberg, doctoral candidate at JTS' Davidson School of Education, the director of education at URJ Eisner Camp and a consultant at Grinberg Education Consulting
- Rachel Happel, Director of K-12 Learning at Temple Beth Shalom in Needham, Massachusetts
- Ziva R Hassenfeld's research focuses on the tools and reading strategies young children employ when reading texts, as well as the pedagogies teachers use to support student textual interpretation, fluency and comprehension
- Shira Horowitz, coach in the Legacy Heritage Teacher Leadership program at Brandeis She teaches in the MAT program at Brandeis, where she has also been a field instructor and DeLeT mentor teacher
- Danielle Igra, director of teacher education and assistant professor of education at Brandeis
- Ben Jacobs, co-directs the Master's Program in Experiential Education & Jewish Cultural Arts at GW, the iCenter Certificate Program in Israel Education at GW, and the National Educators Institute summer workshop for teachers at the National Museum of American Jewish History
- Robin Kahn, director of education and teen engagement at Temple Israel of Natick
- Sheryl Katzman, associate director of the Legacy Heritage Instructional Leadership Institute
- Jon Kelsen, dean at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
- Orit Kent, co-creator and co-director of The Pedagogy of Partnership
- Moshe Krakowski, associate professor at the Azrieli Graduate School for Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and directs Azrieli's master's program in Jewish education
- Jonathan Krasner, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Associate Professor of Jewish Education Research at Brandeis
- Aviva Lauer Golbert, director of the Pardes Center for Jewish Educators
- Marya Levenson, the Levitan director of the Brandeis Education Program
- Alice Levin, director at Kesher Cambridge
- Jon A Levisohn holds the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Chair in Jewish Educational Thought at Brandeis University
- Lesley Litman, director of the Executive MA Program in Jewish Education at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the Lead Consultant for the Experiment in Congregational Education, and the coordinator of HUC-JIR's Day School Externship for rabbinical, education and cantorial students
- Tamar Meir, head of the literature department at the Givat Washington College of Education and teaches Aggadah at Efrata College
- Rachel Mohl Abrahams, senior program officer at The AVI CHAI Foundation
- Deena Rabinovich, directs the Legacy Heritage Jewish Educators' Project at Stern College
- Miriam Raider-Roth, director of Mandel Teacher Educator Institute
- Joseph Reimer, professor of education at Brandeis University
- Charlie Schwartz, director of content development at Hillel International's Center for Jewish and Israel Education
- Susanne Shavelson, associate director of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University
- Michal Fox Smart, director of Ayeka, North America
- Margery Sokoloff, assistant director of the Legacy Heritage Teacher Leader Fellowship and of the Brandeis Teacher Leadership Program
- Rachel Theodorou, elementary faculty leader for the Brandeis Teacher Education Program
- Abigail Uhrman, assistant professor of Jewish education at the Jewish Theological Seminary
- Alison Weikel, member of the dynamic team at Temple Shir Tikva in Wayland, Massachusetts
- Daniel Weinberg, associate director for educational innovation at Prizmah: Center for Jewish Day Schools
- Laura Wiseman, member of the faculty of education and department of humanities at York University in Toronto