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Bringing the Text to Life

Teaching Tip: By Mushkie Lipsker @evergrowingeducator Making texts feel more meaningful and engaging in honor of Hei Teves: This month, we celebrate the return of the seforim, and we celebrate learning. [...]

December 10, 2024|Categories: Blog Post|

Supporters of Our Heritage Gather to Ensure Jewish Education for Every Child

Supporters of the Our Heritage program gathered at the home of Shmuly and Yael Brummel for an evening dedicated to ensuring every Jewish child receives a Jewish education. The Our Heritage program focuses on helping children transfer from public schools to Jewish day schools, providing them with financial support and a nurturing environment where they can grow with a strong connection to Torah, mitzvos, and Jewish values.

September 23, 2024|Categories: Blog Post|

Meet the Chinuch Shlucha:

Please introduce yourself. Name, school and how long you have been a teacher  My name is Morah Rivky Eilenberg, and I work at Magen Yisrael in Long Island. I’ve been [...]

September 17, 2024|Categories: Blog Post|

Over 400 Educators attending the Kinus Mechanchos Chabad! 7 Reasons Not to Come… Debunked by Past Participants!

In just two weeks is the 9th Annual International Kinus Mechanchos Chabad and Retreat, on July 17-18, 11-12 Tammuz. Over 400 educators have signed up already, but a few have [...]

July 4, 2024|Categories: Blog Post, Kinus|

My Ten Commandments of Teaching

Teaching Tip by Mushkie Lipsker @evergrowingeducator My Ten Commandments of Teaching I wrote these up for myself, so that I always have my “personal commandments” to refer to. I encourage [...]

June 4, 2024|Categories: Blog Post|

Meet Shaina Baumgarten, Preschool Teacher at Silverstein Hebrew Academy, Great Neck, NY

Please introduce yourself. My name is Shaina Baumgarten. I have been working in preschool for over 20 years, primarily with 2-year-olds.  What is your Chinuch philosophy? I believe that teaching [...]

June 4, 2024|Categories: Blog Post|

Chinuch Matters: Meet Mrs. Chanie Minkowicz, Teacher at Beis Rivkah of Crown Heights

Please introduce yourself. My name is Chanie Minkowicz from Crown Heights. I have been teaching since I came out of Seminary and currently teach 7th grade at Beis Rivkah. Teaching [...]

May 15, 2024|Categories: Blog Post, Interview|

A Pesach Message from Rabbi Zalman Shneur

As we prepare to celebrate the Pesach, “Zman Cheiruseinu”, our hearts are filled with reflection and contemplation. These past six months have been fraught with challenges unlike any in recent [...]

April 16, 2024|Categories: Blog Post|

The Gift of Tefilla

The biggest question that educators ask today is how we can foster our students’ Yiras Shamayim. While there is no magic wand, I have seen so many students profoundly impacted when they started to put effort into Davening. To help you bring this kind of impact into your classroom, here are the 4 Ps that you can think about when teaching Tefilla: 

November 2, 2023|Categories: Blog Post|

How Do You Get 459 Public School Students to Enroll in Jewish Day Schools?

Fourth grader Gabriela’s whole life changed when she switched from public school to Mazel Day School, a Blue-Ribbon award-winning Chabad school in southern Brooklyn, New York. “I keep Shabbat and [...]

December 12, 2022|Categories: Blog Post|

Chinuch Lessons from Yetzias Mitzrayim

by Morah Chanie Feldman. As educators, we often find ourselves trying to assist a child with a particular challenge, whether social, emotional, or academic. When a child has a challenge, this is their personal Golus, and there is so much that we can learn from the story of Yetzias Mitzrayim for how to guide them toward their personal Geulah! 

April 7, 2022|Categories: Blog Post, Guest Post|

Remembering the Past, to Empower Our Future

A Pesach Message by Rabbi Zalman Shneur, Executive Director. Is a reminder of the darkness of slavery really necessary at a celebration of Freedom?  Yes, says the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Throughout the Seder night, we must actively retell the story of the Jewish People’s redemption from slavery to salvation by experiencing it for ourselves.

March 19, 2021|Categories: Blog Post, Staff|

A Teacher’s Role During Covid-19

By Yanki Raskin LMSW, The role of a mechanech goes beyond teaching skills and text. While this is always true, during these times of change and uncertainty, this aspect of our role takes on a new meaning; the context and environment of our teaching is fertile ground and is calling upon us to use this opportunity to engage and be of service to our students in ways that can and b’ezras Hashem will make a lasting educational impression upon them.

April 20, 2020|Categories: Blog Post, Guest Post|

Are Our Students on the Outside Looking In, or On the Inside Looking Out?

Today, Tes Adar, marks 80 years to the day that the Frerdiker Rebbe arrived in America. At that time, American Jewry was, borrowing the terminology of the Rashbatz, “on the outside,” but not necessarily looking to come in.

March 5, 2020|Categories: Blog Post, Story|

By Leaps and Bounds: A Pesach Message

By Rabbi Zalman Shneur, The name of the upcoming Yom Tov of Pesach derives from the word meaning “and Hashem will leap over.” Rashi in his commentary explains further: “The festival is called Pesach because of [Hashem’s] leaping.... Therefore, perform all its aspects in a manner of bounding and leaping.” Pesach has a special characteristic of leaping beyond the boundaries of regular limitations.

April 3, 2019|Categories: Blog Post|

Teaching Our Students How to Think

By Rabbi Shais Taub, The name of the upcoming Yom Tov of Pesach derives from the word meaning “and Hashem will leap over.” Rashi in his commentary explains further: “The festival is called Pesach because of [Hashem’s] leaping.... Therefore, perform all its aspects in a manner of bounding and leaping.” Pesach has a special characteristic of leaping beyond the boundaries of regular limitations.

January 8, 2019|Categories: Blog Post, Guest Post, Uncategorized|

Parshas Hashavua: Aiming Higher

By Mrs. Chanah Rose, Parsha. It’s a spiral that takes us higher each year, revisiting familiar stories on deeper levels, with new relevance for the new year. In schools, we need to make sure that Parsha class is indeed a spiral that cycles upwards, and not mainly repetition. Parsha is perhaps the only subject which is taught consistently from preK all the way up through high school, so it takes effort and intentionality to teach it each year in a way that’s new.

October 11, 2018|Categories: Blog Post, Guest Post, Uncategorized|

What Makes A Great Teacher? 5 Things I Learned from the Chinuch Awards

  Last year, reading the submissions and making the reference calls for the Chinuch Award nominees was a tremendous privilege, and truly inspirational. I remember thinking about whether it would [...]

March 29, 2017|Categories: Blog Post, Staff|Tags: , , , |
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