This teachers' guide to Tiptoe through Genesis offers students a meaningful way to share the first of the five books of the Torah.
The Shalom Hartman Institute's Ritual Center offers this ritual to remember, reflect, and hope in this high holiday season.
This curriculum guide takes participants on an adventure studying middot through building an organic community garden
This curriculum guide explores how families with a loved one who struggles with addictive behaviors can find connection.
Consider what it might look like to plan for instruction based on what’s strong with students, not what is wrong with students. For instance, how can instruction be planned to build on strengths such as curiosity, kindness or judgment?
Daniel Rechtschaffen created a framework to think about mindfulness in terms of 5 literacies:
physical,
mental,
emotional,
social and
global.
This workbook explores each of the 5 literacies and provides a variety of practical activites with clear directions for each activity. In additiion, each literacy activtiy comes with an explicit rationale detailing the benefits of doing that acitivity.
Temple Beth Sholom, Roslyn, NY. Learners in grades 1-6 are paired. A child in an older grade serves as a mentor for a child in a younger grade. The pairs, Yedidim (friends/buddies) live Jewish life together and share everyday experiences.
Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York. Learners of different ages are integrated into four tribes and engage in immersive activities to learn about Jewish values. Tribes is facilitated by teens (tribal chiefs).
Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester, Rye, NY. Intergenerational teams consisting of two adults and one teen serve as learning facilitators for four or five 6th or 7th grade students.