ARTICLES AND LINKS

• Summer 2016 Webinar Series: The Pedagogy of Teaching Hebrew in the Religious School Setting (webinar series, ARJE)
• Supplementary School Article Roundup (eJewish Philanthropy)
• Part-Time Schools: A Mighty System Slowly Wanes (JData Newsletter)
• Spreading and Sustaining Innovation in Congregational Education: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned (Jewish Education Project)
• Teaching “The Impossible” With Hebrew Through Movement (eJewish Philanthropy)
• Changing the Way We Teach Hebrew in Part-Time Settings (Hebrew Through Movement)
• Will New Hebrew School Model Help or Undermine Synagogues? (The Jewish Week)
• Radical New Hebrew School Model Taking Shape (The Jewish Week)
• Schools that Work: What We Can Learn from Good Jewish Supplementary Schools (Jack Wertheimer, Avichai Foundation Report)
• Mapping Professional Development for Jewish Educators (Brandeis)

Recommendations from Kate Bailey, Program Director, MoEd:

• People You Should Know: Sahar Malka
• One Weekend, Two Profound Losses

Recommendations from David Behrman, President, Behrman House Publishers:

• Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren’t the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (Dr. David Weinberger)
• Managing the Nonprofit Organization: Principles and Practices
• (Peter Drucker) 
• Leadership: Thinking, Being, Doing (Dr. Lee Thayer)

Recommendations from Rabbi Lori Forman-Jacobi, Director, Jewish Journey Program:

• Interpreting Jewish Texts Through Drama in the Classroom (ELI talks)
• Why We need Passion-Based Learning in Jewish Education (ELI talks)
• Turn of the Century Bar Mitzvah (ELI Talks)
• Jewish Educational Leadership With Soul (ELI Talks)
• Spiritual Direction for Children (Leslie Schotz)
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business-ebook/dp/B0055PGUYU – nav-subnav
• The Dog Wags the Tail: Successful Educational Transformation (eJewish Philanthropy)http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-dog-wags-the-tail-successful-educational-transformation/

Recommendations from Ilana Gleicher-Bloom, Vision Director, Mensch Academy

• Creative Schools (Robinson)
• Most Likely to Succeed (Wagner and Dintersmith)
• www.responsiveclassroom.org
• www.edutopia.orghttp://www.edutopia.org/

Recommendations from Zelig Golden, Founding Director, Wilderness Torah

• A Critical Time for Jewish Youth: Rethinking the Bar and Bat Mitzvah (wildernesstorah.org)
• Bringing Parents Along, A key to Life Centered Education (eJewish Philanthropy)
• A Wild Faith (Rabbi Mike Comins)
• Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature (Haas, McGown,Young)
• The Book of Days (Jill Hammer)
• Nature and the Human Soul (Bill Plotkin)

Recommendations from Rebecca Milder, Founder and Director, Jewish Enrichment Center

• Setting the Standard for Project Based Learning: A Proven Approach to Rigorous Classroom Instruction (John Larmer, John Mergendoller, and Suzie Boss)
• Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments (Deb Curtis and Margie Carter)
• Beyond Behavior Management: The Six Life Skills Children Need to Thrive in Today’s World (Jenna Bilmes)
• Responsive Classroom Information Library 
• The Power of Our Words: Teacher Language That Helps Children Learn 
• (Paula Denton)

Recommendations from Shlaina Van Dyke, Principal, The Weber School

• The Value of Field Experience and Mentoring in Teacher Preparation: Views From the Experts (Edutopia)
• The Skillful Teacher: Building Your Teaching Skills (Jon Saphier)
• https://www.responsiveclassroom.org/info-library/

Recommendations from Vicki Weber, Partner and Director of Communications and Customer Support, Behrman House Publishers:

• A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (Edwin H. Friedman) 

Recommendations from Rachel Happel, Director of K-12 Learning, Temple Beth Sholom

• An Ethic of Excellence – Ron Berger
• The Morning Meeting Book – Roxanne Kriete and Carol Davis
• Teach for Right Now – Wendy Grinberg
• Making Learning Whole – David Perkins
• The Courage to Teach – Parker Palmer

Recommendations from Rabbi Nicki Greninger, Director of Education, Temple Isaiah

• B’nai Mitzvah Revolution (website)
• Upending the Grammar of the Conventional Religious School (JJE) 
• The Jewish-English Lexicon (website)

Recommendations from Allison Gutman, Director of Youth and Family Learning, Congregation Shaarey Zedek

• Most Likely to Succeed (Dintersmith and Wagner)
• Open Minds, Devoted Hearts: Portraits of Adult Religious Educators (Tauber)
• UnCommon Learning: Creating Schools That Work for Kids (Sheninger)
• Building a Better Teacher (Green)

Recommendations from Rachel Happel, Director of K-12 Learning, Temple Beth Sholom

• An Ethic of Excellence – Ron Berger
• The Morning Meeting Book – Roxanne Kriete and Carol Davis
• Teach for Right Now – Wendy Grinberg
• Making Learning Whole – David Perkins
• The Courage to Teach – Parker Palmer

Recommendations from Rabbi Darren Levine, Tamid-The Downtown Synagogue

• Khana Academy
• Tamid Online Curriculum
• E-learning for kids

Recommendations from Stephanie Tankel, Director of Religious Education, Washington Hebrew Congregation

• The End of Average by Todd Rose
• The Road to Character by David Brooks
• The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey
• Welcome To Holland
• Personal Best: Top Athletes and Singers Have Coaches. Should you? (The New Yorker)