Training and Educational Services

Are You Happy in Your Comfort Zone?

One of my first big-time assignments at Behrman House about fifteen years ago was to fly to Chicago to lead an all-hands educator meeting about the future of Hebrew education in that city.

Classroom Games—Motivating or Destructive?

In my travels around the country, educators regularly ask me for classroom game ideas. The kids love games, they say. Games can add liveliness, variation, and interest to a lesson. Games are experiential. I’ve seen games that facilitate learning in several ways. These games: • provide practice and review of Hebrew decoding and prayer recitation skills. • provide reinforcement in a relaxed setting.

I Do and I Understand

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. —Confucious That makes experiential learning at least 2,500 years old. So why has experiential learning been reborn in Jewish education?

Personal Growth Can Be Scary

“We value and respect personal development, creativity, and intellectual growth.” That’s one of our core values here at Behrman House. Personal and professional development is not just encouraged here—it is required. 1. Each of the fifteen employees writes a personal development plan for the year and reviews and assesses it quarterly with the department head. (Years ago this replaced the annual review.)

Just Ask an Angel

One of my take-aways from the JEA and NATE conferences in the last two weeks was that there is money out there—you just have to know who, and how, to ask. Three examples:

Introducing Change: Lessons from Branding a Jewish Federation

by Howard Adam Levy Howard Adam Levy, principal of Red Rooster Group, a branding agency in New York City, is a consultant with Behrman House Consulting Group. His specialty is Marketing Outreach Strategies, Branding, and Design and Promotions. This post first appeared in eJewish Philanthropy. *********************************************************************

Your Success Is My Success

I recently wrote about the value of full and straighforward communication (one of our core values here at Behrman House) and the importance of expressing your emotions in the workplace. This happened to me yesterday: I wrote an email to a colleague. I thought it was short and to the point. She wrote back: “Terry, I’m having a negative reaction to your email.

Teach Israel

Experience Modern Israel

New from Behrman House. Fly to Israel without a plane ticket.

Discover Israel

Let's Discover Israel

Offer younger children an exciting and age-appropriate introduction to the Jewish homeland