Last week, thirty ECE leaders came together for a day-long retreat at the Marin JCC. The learning was focused on an asset-based approach to building a collaborative school culture. Our day was facilitated by Dr. Mindy Gold. Beginning with the
By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator One of the many things I loved about my position as a Jewish early childhood director was meeting the parents who came through our doors to tour the school. For many families, choosing
By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator Jewish LearningWorks has been “on the road” visiting preschools across the Bay Area. During these visits, it has been a joy and privilege to see so many different, wonderful spaces, and hear from
By Ellen Lefkowitz, Jewish LearningWorks Senior Educator AI is here. For those of us who grew up in the 80s, this was a thing of science fiction. In my wildest dreams, I don’t think I could have ever imagined the
By Jenni Mangel, Director of Educational Leadership, Jewish LearningWorks My mom says that theatre saved me and my sister in high school. Yes, I was a “theatre kid” who lived for the annual spring musical. Being in the drama and
By Alisha Pedowitz, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Educator I read with interest the newly published research article, “You Stand Out No Matter What You Say” by Cheryl Weiner, Jonathan Krasner, Meka Greenwald, and Lance Rothchild, published out of the Jack, Joseph,
Caption: Kibbutz Be’eri by cartoonist and illustrator Michel Kichka, a collaborator of Wrapping Memory. By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO At Jewish LearningWorks, we believe that learning and healing are intertwined; both acts of courage and hope, acts of care for
By Jenni Mangel, Jewish LearningWorks’ Senior Director of Impact and Evaluation Over the last few years, a recurring text we have studied with our Voices for Good fellows is Eruvin 13b(10). In this passage of Talmud, the rabbis are debating
By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO This spring and summer, I was captivated by a short series of podcasts on hope, hosted by On Being with Krista Tippett. Each of the fifteen minute episodes ended with a provocation, inviting listeners
By Dana Sheanin, Jewish LearningWorks’ CEO and Rabbi Alissa Miller, Rabbi of Community Engagement at Temple Isaiah, Lafayette, CA and Voices for Good Alumna. I have spent almost twenty of my thirty years in Jewish education thinking about teenagers —
