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Building the Resources of Your Religious School

By Arlene Agress Creative ways to build your school's budget and help provide it with the resources to buy the best materials, hold meaningful programs, and offer teachers vital ongoing development. Teaser:  11 creative ways to build your school's budget and help provide it with the resources to buy the best materials, hold meaningful programs, and offer teachers vital ongoing development.

Preparation, Not Panic: When a Teacher Is Absent Building the Resources of Your Religious School Principals'

By Lisa J. Goldstein Ways to prepare for teacher absences, including:   Maintaining an up-to-date substitute list   Preparing administratively for a substitute   Preparing strong, ready-to-use instructional material   What to do when you simply cannot find a substitute teacher  

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Developing a Madrichim Program in Your School

By Lisa Bob Howard Reasons to implement a madrichim program in your school, techniques for using madrichim's talents, how to define their responsibilities, and ways to involve them in classroom activities.  

In the Classroom

Parent Pages for Look at Me   Letters to email or print out and send home for parents and children to enrich the activities in the Look at Me booklets and to promote parents’ own Jewish learning  Look at Me: I Can Learn and Do in the Synagogue Look at Me: I Can Celebrate Shabbat

PLANNING AHEAD FOR FAMILY SHABBAT SERVICES

  Download Printable Version (PDF) When you prepare thoroughly in advance, you can help ensure vibrant, successful family Shabbat services.

HOW TO USE TEXTBOOKS CREATIVELY

  Download Printable Version(PDF)   Think of your favorite Jewish textbook. What makes it your favorite? Is it the information it provides your students? The pleasing look and design? The way it challenges your students to think?

9 WAYS TO CREATE A GREAT JUNIOR CONGREGATION EXPERIENCE

By Edwin R. Frankel

Student Development Profiles

  DownloadPrintableVersion(PDF) Pre-K: The Three-Year-Old

chapter overviews

 Synopsis of each chapter in our most popular Judaica titles, providing you with:■ the facts, story, and/or key characters in the book■ the educational objectives and goals for each chapter■ key themes and Jewish values■ how students can make personal meaning of the content

Video Resources

Alef Bet Quest - Webinar with the author Dina Maiben - How to use Alef Bet Quest   Kids Mensch Handbook - Teacher Training   Kol Yisrael

Curriculum Guide

10 Ways to Use How Good: Songs for Siddur Mah Tov in Your School and Congregation

  Teaser:  Have the cantor, music director, or a talented madrich or madrichah teach students songs from the CD. Each grade learns one or two songs—there are fourteen songs in all.

Worksheets for Hineni Prayer Booklets

With our compliments: Worksheets for Hineni Prayer Booklets   Downloadable sheets to review prayer concepts and practice prayer reading in the 20 Hineni Prayer Booklets.   · Brachot   · Brachot shel Shabbat  

Hineni Prayer Booklets Enrichment Guide

 

Stories from Count Me In to Complement and Enrich Hineni

Count Me In: Jewish Wisdom in Action, our 5–7th grade book on Jewish values, includes stories from biblical and Talmudic texts, Jewish folklore, and modern literature—many of which complement and enrich the prayers in Hineni.   Below are PDFs showing two examples:   Example 1    

Reconstructionist Variations for Hineni

Reconstructionist variations to download and print out for six prayers in the Hineni series. Kiddush   G'vurot   Birchot HaTorah  

Hineni 3 Interactive E-Z User Guide

With Our Compliments: Hineni 3 Interactive E-Z User Guide   This document is being made available in Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) format. E-Z User Guide A guide for Hineni 3 Interactive CD to:   Help install and use the program.  

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