Eons ago in the 1990’s, as director of a Jewish Teacher Resource Center, I gave workshop presentations on “Being Resource-full in Jewish Education.” In one presentation I handed out shoelaces to represent the “shoestring” budgets that Jewish teachers and administrators were required to stretch.
Toward the end of the workshop, I handed out index cards each with a hole punched in one corner. On these cards I asked the participants to write descriptions of low-cost resources which they had created or purchased. They then attached the cards to the shoelaces.
After we’d shared ideas from the cards, I collected them and brought them back to my Resource Center and hung them in a bulletin board display.
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Ronni has been a Jewish educator since Moses was in preschool (almost!). She has had the pleasure of teaching all age groups in a variety of formal and informal settings, as well as directing a Jewish Teacher Resource Center. While teaching in a Jewish Day School, Ronni coached an award-winning Odyssey of the Mind creative problem solving team.Ronni was an active participant in the former Conference on Alternatives in Jewish Education (CAJE), where she held leadership positions including Network Chair and Conference Co-Chair of CAJE 29 at Hofstra University. She currently teaches Hebrew at the Congregation Albert Religious School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Talmud teaches: “The Torah cannot be learned unless it is learned among friends.” Ronni views blogging on JCast as such a learning opportunity.
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