We in the North American Jewish Day School (JDS) world have good reason be proud of what we have created.  Our various, varied educational institutions

    Over my years in Jewish education, the one subject that has generated the most commentary is Hebrew language.  Almost no one seems satisfied

  A question came up during a conversation I had with the head of a school that is built on a project based learning (PBL)

A few years ago I was reviewing our gemara curriculum with a committee of administration and faculty members.  Specifically, we were looking at ways to

“אם אין אני לי, מי לי – If I am not for myself, who will be?”  Or, to put it more colloquially, “Look out for

How many hundreds of thousands of dollars hang from the walls of our day schools in the form of interactive “smart” boards?  I half-jokingly say

In this week’s parasha we are commanded to be holy.  קדושים תהיו.  But what exactly does that mean? Ramban, expanding on a comment in Rashi,

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; show him how to catch fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

SCHOLAR. HERO. BENEFACTOR. My Educational Philosophy HERO   In the first segment of this series, I wrote about the scholar, the person who learns from

SCHOLAR. HERO. BENEFACTOR. My Personal Educational Philosophy As parents, we have hopes and aspirations for our children.  We want them to be happy, to be