Project Based Learning and Judaic Studies
520 8th Avenue, 15th Floor, New York , New York 10018
Join us for a free two-part workshop on April 23th and 24th, co-facilitated by Tikvah Weiner of the new IDEA School and Miriam Amsel of Tiferes Bnos!
The sessions will include a project slice (a quick cycle through a full project), learning on how to design a unit, and guided time to plan one.
Tikvah Wiener is passionate about making learning relevant and meaningful for students, and igniting their creativity and curiosity. She's doing so by starting a fully interdisciplinary, project-based learning (PBL) high school, The Idea School, in Bergen County, NJ, in September 2018. She is also co-Founder and Director of the I.D.E.A. Schools Network, which helps schools implement PBL; since the Network was founded in 2014, Tikvah, her co-Founder Dr. Eliezer Jones, and the I.D.E.A. School team have trained over 1,000 teachers in PBL and educational and school change.
Tikvah has been in Jewish education her entire life. A graduate of Jewish day schools, she attended Midreshet Moriah and then Stern College for Women, earning a B.A. in English Literature before getting her M.A. in English Literature/Creative Writing from Queen’s College. By then she had started her career as an English teacher at Samuel H. Wang High School for Girls. She was also a teacher and Chairman of the English Department at The Frisch School and Chief Academic Officer at Magen David Yeshivah High School. Tikvah was a Joshua Venture Fellow, 2014-16, and a 2016-17 JEIC HaKaveret Designer, working on a team of 10 educators to create innovative models for Jewish education. You can learn more about her work from her ELI Talk, “Why We Need Passion-Based Learning in Jewish Education.” Tikvah lives with her family in Teaneck, NJ, but can be found frequently vacationing in California.
Miriam Amsel is the founder and Principal of Tiferes Bnos. She founded Tiferes Bnos 15 years ago and has expanded from an elementary school to a high school. She is a twice winning recipient of the Covenant Award and is a speaker who has presented in schools and the Jewish Education Project.