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What does a leader look like? What distinguishes leaders? Are you a leader? If not, what prevents you? Leaders aren’t just those at the top of flow charts. They’re the people who make things happen from anywhere in an organization — top, middle, or...

As a Jewish educator I have always been passionate about change and drawn to the innovative and different. Always on the lookout for new pathways and points of access and asking why they were never sought out or perhaps never noticed before, I have...

One of the most common questions we get from teachers who are just starting to use more technology in their classrooms is “How can I keep students on task?” The question is certainly not new. It’s something teachers have been wondering since the days...

“Mommy! Mommy! Look, a goat! A silver goat!” I’m sitting at a traffic light, annoyed at the large truck in front of me that caused me to miss the green light in the first place, and only barely hearing my daughter trying to get my attention. “Look...

For about a year now several early childhood directors and teacher leaders involved in The Jewish Education Project’s Project LEAD initiative have been pushing themselves to spread innovative practices more widely throughout their school. The end...

I love reading the poems on New York City subway trains. When I’m standing in the right position so my view isn’t blocked and I’m not using all my energy to avoid overzealous commuters, I read the poems. For the uninitiated, New York City’s...

“Innovation” is a really strange word. It’s jargony and clichéd. It’s also still a little bit exciting. It dangles the possibility of things that are better ahead—of hope and billion dollar ideas. In the context of education, after we immediately...

I used to count everything. I’d sit in synagogue and count the panes in the stained glass windows, the lights on the yahrzeit board, and the steps to the bema. I couldn’t stop. I’d count the steps from my room to the front door and the links on my...

Originally published on eJewishPhilanthropy And Other Interesting Findings in Generation Now: Understanding and Engaging Jewish Teens Today Part 2 of 2 [ Part 1 – Generation Now: Understanding and Engaging Jewish Teens Today – can be found here.]...

High school was very challenging for me. I have a learning disability and while many of my peers took honors classes and easily earned straight A’s, I worked and struggled for every B and B+ that I earned in my mainstream classes. But I worked hard...