I recently visited my 95 year old father who was hospitalized with heart problems and my mother who suffers from dementia. My home is 1000 miles away from the nursing facility where my parents live. As I’m a caregiver for my husband, travel is immensely difficult and visits to my parents are unfortunately brief and […]
The Connected Educator – A Summer Book Report
The summer is that glorious time when I get to catch up on all those books I didn’t have time to read during the course of the school year. Along with my beloved escapist novels (at the moment I’m reading Robopocalypse: A Novel, by Daniel H. Wilson) I’ve also started The Connected Educator: Learning and […]
Jewish Education Summer To-Do List
Throughout the religious school year, as a Jewish educator, I’m propelled by curricular objectives, Holiday preparations, and synagogue-wide events in which my students participate. Then, one day in May, with a final “Shalom,” my students are off on their summer vacations. My classroom is off-limits for summer cleaning. Although I have numerous family responsibilities, I’m […]
Moses’ Modesty and R. Simcha’s Two Pockets
This past Shabbat’s Torah section, Be’ha’alotekha, includes the famous description of Moses’ singular virtue [Numbers 12.3]: “This man Moses was very humble, more than any other human being on the face of the earth.” If anyone could justify a little vanity, maybe it would be the man whose face glowed with light because he came […]
End Of The Year
It is hard for me to believe that the time has arrived to write my last blog post of the year. Time has moved quickly, yet at the same time, so much has been accomplished, so many friendships have been built, such deep learning has been achieved. There is much to celebrate and so many […]
Of Ships, Fiber Optics and The Jewish Futures Conference
I was listening to NPR’s “Fresh Air” yesterday. It featured Andrew Blum, the author of the just-released “Tubes – A Journey to the Center of the Internet”. The interview (you can access it here), and the book focus on how the virtual space we call “The Cloud” doesn’t exist outside of physical spaces like data […]
Conservative and Reconstructionist Practice, Part 2
Rabbi David Teutsch responded to my comments comparing his Guide to Jewish Practice with the Conservative work The Observant Life with some criticisms of his own. I thank David for writing back, and invite him – and others – to continue the conversation. I’d like to respond to David’s observation with 3 points. First, David affirmed that […]
What’s In Your Child’s Backback
This weekend Jews throughout the world celebrate Shavuot, a somewhat unknown holiday as it occurs towards the end of the year (so often ignored in Hebrew School curricula) and before the summer (and thus not celebrated in Jewish summer camps!). But in fact, Shavuot is a major Jewish holiday. Shavuot, the “Feast of Weeks,” is […]
The Teacher as Network Weaver
The other day, during my morning-drive-to-work ritual, I was listening to NPR’s “The Take Away”. The topic was: “College Students Either Studying as Hard as Ever, or Not Hard Enough.” It was based on a series of studies that seem to have found that college students today study 40% less than their counterparts in 1961. […]
SHARING CLASSROOM SPACE
At our last faculty meeting of the school year, we were invited to discuss concerns about our classes. One elementary grade teacher expressed the concern that her Sunday School students never quite felt comfortable in the classroom which they shared with a weekday Early Childhood Center class. The Sunday School students needed frequent reminders not […]
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