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The Center for Jewish Education supports excellence in Jewish Education. We are committed to providing quality professional development opportunities for educators in Baltimore’s Jewish schools.
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The Center for Jewish Education’s Rimon program is designed to enhance teachers’ skills and abilities through ongoing professional development. We encourage educators in our local Jewish institutions to engage in appropriate educational pedagogy and methodology, familiarity with Hebrew language, knowledge of Jewish texts, support of Israel’s integral role in Jewish heritage, and Jewish educational ambassadorship to parents and community.
Our program includes conferences and symposia, a novice teacher program, and workshops throughout the year. We encourage you to design a professional development plan to share with your principal or director.
You can also contact Autumn Sadovnik at asadovnik@cjeb.org for a personal consultation on your professional development needs.
About Registration:
- Please register early, as many programs have limited seating and we cannot guarantee space
- Yom Iyun registration will be completed by principals
- Please print your registration confirmation for your records
- Cancellations MUST be made 48 hours in advance. Please review our policy here.
- Registration must be completed through this website.
Call CJE at 410-735-5024for assistance
If you have questions about your eligibility for course participation, subsidies, or stipends, please call CJE at 410-735-5014.
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Carlyle once received a letter from a young man which read like this:
“Mr. Carlyle, I wish to be a teacher. Will you tell me the secret of successful training?”
Carlyle immediately wrote back: “Be what you would have your pupils be. All other teaching is unblessed mockery and aspery.”
F. Russell Purdy
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Principals, Directors and Administrators
These courses focus on the issues facing school leaders. All courses in this category require prior permission from CJE education staff. Courses with stipends have specific eligibility requirements that must be met. Courses with fees may be entitled to Crane reimbursement for eligible teachers.
Early Childhood Directors should contact DJ Schneider Jensen at djensen@cjeb.org with questions. All others, contact Autumn Sadovnik at asadovnik@cjeb.org.
Congregational Principals’ Leadership Series: L.E.A.D.
Leadership. Education. Advocacy. Development.
LEAD-101
This series, facilitated by experts from the National Staff Development Council is designed to:
- Enhance the level of expertise among educational leadership in the area of professional development
- Explore key elements of professional development design and staff supervision
- Build leadership capacity and prepare educational leaders to design and implement an Institutional Professional Development Plan (IPDP) that is responsive to their particular institutional needs, culture, and context.
- Provide ongoing professional development and collegial sharing for the educational leadership of congregational schools
Remember to confirm your leadership team with Autumn before completing registration.
Dates: December 10, February 4, April 13, June 3
Time: TBD
Location: CJE
Cost: $0 to qualifying principals/leadership teams
Maryland Model For School Readiness Training
MMSR-101
The Maryland Model for School Readiness (MMSR) is an innovative approach to training child care providers in the readiness criteria for public school. CJE has contracted with Committee for Children to provide the training necessary to support implementation of the MMSR in your school. This high-quality, highly interactive training is organized along four basic strands: observation; assessment; documentation; and connecting with children, families, schools and instruction.
The training consists of 9 six-hour training modules hosted over the school year. The training modules build upon one another to improve learning environments for young children. This training content, which includes use of the Work Sampling System (WSS), corresponds to content areas specified as the "core of knowledge" required for the Maryland Child Care Credential. Successful completion of the MMSR training qualifies a provider for the Credential. In addition to the training, technical assistance site visits are conducted in order for participants to better incorporate the training into their everyday practice.
Note: Minimum 10 participants.
Dates: TBD
Time: 9am-4pm
Fee: TBD
Location: CJE
Reveal Israel
ISR- 101
School leadership teams are invited for an all-day retreat focusing on revealing Israel in your curriculum. Together with Michael Weiger, Executive Director of Melitz www.melitzamerica.org and CJE staff, we will explore Israel “beyond the camel and the conflict” using modern and traditional text, values projects, case studies, technology and more. Your school team will explore an Israel narrative for your school and begin the year long process of drafting new or revising existing Israel curriculum. As a result of participation in the retreat, select schools will be eligible to choose from outstanding resource materials to enhance instruction. Additionally, select educators will be eligible for the Moreh Derech program; a year-long mentorship with an Israeli educator culminating with a mifgash in Israel!
Lunch, Snacks and Materials Included
Immediately following the all-day retreat, a community-wide Israel Engagement summit will commence. Retreat participants are invited to stay.
Reveal Israel is funded by a generous grant from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Fund for the Enrichment of Jewish Education
Principals must approve registration. Please contact Amian Frost Kelemer at akelemer@cjeb.org or at 410-735-5007 for more information on Reveal Israel.
Presenters: Melitz and CJE Staff
Dates: November 16
Time: 10am-5pm
Location: CJE
Yom Iyun 5770: Israel: Teaching the Primary Source
RIM-500
Learn how to engage students in learning through the use of primary sources. Why read about Israel, when you can examine artifacts, analyze photography, and hear firsthand accounts of experiences in Eretz Yisrael?
The Kotel Tunnels: LIVE!!! (all attendees)
Engage in real time with an actual archaeologist currently excavating the Kotel tunnels! Our videoconference will allow you to ask questions and learn about the real artifacts being discovered everyday beside the Western Wall. Hear about what we now know about life in ancient Jerusalem and learn how you can help your students participate in a virtual field trip.
Breakout Sessions: (attendees will participate in one)
The Jewish Lens: Focusing on Photography
Imagine a classroom where students are so immersed in talking about a photograph that time stands still. A space where young teenagers passionately debate and connect around issues of Jewish values, history and text. Where they research Jewish communities - and to boot, learn the craft of photography. Imagine that it’s your classroom. Engage in a study of photographs of Israel. Learn about the land and its people and take back questioning skills and strategies to help your students make the connection.
Experiences in Words: Written and Oral
Every individual experiences Israel differently. From the process of planning a trip or aliyah to visiting holy sites to simply breathing in the smells of the environment and food, Israel speaks to us. How do we use those voices and writings to help students draw their own conclusions? Learn about the variety of speakers available to you as a teacher, and learn how to best utilize travelers' diaries, immigrants, shinshinim, documents, and even your rabbi in engaging conversation to help your students go beyond the textbook and into the human experience.
Congregational Principals will register for teachers to ensure balanced session attendance for each school. Day School Principals interested in sending participants should contact Autumn for seat availability and registration details.
Presenters: Western Wall Heritage Foundation, The Jewish Lens, Melitz
Date: Sunday, December 20
Time: 8:45am-12:00pm
Location: PH JCC
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“Let your eyes gaze with esteem upon your teachers.”
-Isaiah 30:20
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Teachers
CJE has invested much time and resources in selecting and developing rigorous, meaningful, and practical courses for teachers in partner schools. Many of our courses have limited seating available, so be sure to sign-up early in order to guarantee your place.
Cancellations must be made 48 hours in advance, or teachers may lose Rimon eligibility, regardless of additional classes completed.
To qualify for Rimon stipends, eligible teachers must attend Yom Iyun and six hours of additional RIMON courses. Partial stipends will not be given at this time.
Questions regarding Rimon eligibility or course offerings should be directed to Autumn Sadovnik at asadovnik@cjeb.org.
The Novice Teacher Series
TNT-201
This program will provide professional and emotional support, and create a community of teachers who have the skills and confidence to enhance student learning in Jewish day and congregational schools. Through workshops, cohorts, and reflective practice, beginning teachers will become experts in positive, supportive, and interactive learning environments that cultivate excellence in education in Baltimore’s Jewish schools.
Topics will include Resources for Educators, Planning, Assessment, Classroom Management, Learning Styles, Exceptional Learners, Differentiated Instruction, Active Learning, Questioning Skills, and special sessions for specific subject areas. A text and additional materials will be provided.
Teachers completing course requirements will be eligible for a $300 stipend for this course only. Teachers may register for the program through September 15
Instructors: CJE Staff and Master Teachers
Dates: Wednesdays, September 2, September 16, September 30, October 14, October 28, November 11, November 18, December 9, January 20, February 24, March 17, May 12
Time: 7-9pm
Location: CJE
CJE Open House
TNT-102
Join us at the CJE for an orientation program that will introduce you to the people and resources at CJE. As the central agency for Jewish Education in the Baltimore area, CJE provides services and support to Jewish educators and educational programs.
Meet our education staff and learn about financial programs, licensure and certification, curricular materials, and other available resources for you as a Jewish educator. We will spend a portion of the evening in an active hands-on discovery of the Resource Center, and all participants will depart with some exciting Jewish educational gifts!
Presenters: CJE Staff
Date: Wednesday September 2
Location: CJE Story Area
Time: 7:00-8:30 pm
Attendees MUST preregister to guarantee availability of materials.
This session is not eligible for RIMON credit.
A.J. Heschel and a Jewish Call to Action: Engaging Your Students in
Jewish Service Learning
RIM-1015
Inspired by the Biblical prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of American Jewry’s most vocal and active supporters of civil rights. Our Jewish heritage places great emphasis on volunteerism and service to community. This session will investigate some of Heschel’s writings and activities, and generate a conversation about the hallmarks of Jewish service learning. Learn how to engage your students in service learning that is both meaningful and lasting in the minds of young people and the community at large.
A student session with Rabbi Rose will take place October 14 at the Owings Mills JCC. Have your principal contact Autumn if you are interested in having your middle and high school students attend.
Presenter: Rabbi Or Rose
Date: Thursday October 15
Location: Community Room
Time: 7-9pm
Classroom Management Book Club - Three Sessions
CMBC-101
Read, discuss and implement classroom management strategies as we learn the many research-based and time-tested approaches to discipline and classroom management. Our two selections will help you see the big picture and apply practical solutions to your every-day issues. The third session will cover the changes you have seen in your classroom since implementing these strategies.
Selections:
What Great Teachers do Differently: 14 Things That Matter Most, by Todd Whitaker
Learn about beliefs, behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that our best teachers demonstrate, leading to smoothly run, successful classrooms.
Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community by Alfie Kohn
Kohn teaches us about how you can learn to work with students, rather than do things to them in order to develop a community of intrinsically motivated and cooperative learners.
Copies of the selections are available at CJE for $18 each. Teachers MUST read the first book before the first session.
Presenters: Autumn Sadovnik and Leora Pushett
Dates: Wednesdays November 4, December 23, & February 3
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
The Heritage of Our Students: The Jewish Museum of Maryland
RIM-1112
CANCELLED
Learn how the museum’s offerings can be tailored to fit your curriculum, classroom, student and schedule. Teachers will meet at the museum to explore exhibits, trunks for classroom use, and primary source research materials. Additionally, breakout sessions specifically designed for your schools’ format and instructional style will allow you to leave with meaningful, practical ideas to take back to your classroom. Subsidies will be offered to cover some of the cost of making the programs possible for your students.
Presenters: JMM Staff
Date: Thursday, November 12
Location: JMM lobby, 15 Lloyd Street, Baltimore
Time: 7pm-9pm
Teachers must attend the session in order to apply for a classroom subsidy.
Judaism is Not Disposable! Creating Ritual Objects that Convey
Meaning and Curriculum
RIM-0128
Will a seder plate ever be more than cupcake holders on a paper plate? Can a grogger be more than beans in a cup? How can I make an art project more than just an art project? How can I use effectively use the activity to teach and reinforce concepts and facts about Jewish life. An investigation of Jewish ritual art will lead us on a journey to creativity. Together we will learn and create…and then take our lessons back to the classroom and inspire our students!
Presenter: Laurie Bellet
Date: Thursday, January 28
Location: Community Room
Time: 7-9 pm
The Pedagogy of Discovery with Lincoln Center Institute
RIM-0221
Reflecting educational philosopher-in-residence Maxine Greene’s teachings, LCI has developed an approach to teaching and learning now subscribed to across the country. Educators interact with works of art – in our case, music - and are guided by teaching artists. Participants experience innovative and effective ways to explore artwork, developing a framing question called the “line of inquiry” (LOI).
This investigation flows between doing and examining, using a variety of learning modalities. The inquiry seeks to establish a deeper observation and analysis of the artwork, both as a group and individually. Multiple perspectives are embraced, even as the group develops a common vocabulary and understanding, and repeated encounters with the work of art allow for refinement. Connections to the classroom may lead to new questions to pursue in this cycle of asking, looking, and learning. LCI believes that this approach to fostering imaginative learning can be applied across the curriculum.
This session will count for six full hours of RIMON credit for teachers who complete a corresponding follow-up project and attend a networking session.
Presenter: Lincoln Center Institute
Date: Sunday, February 21
Location: Community Room
Time: 12:30-5:30pm
Texting the Jewish Way – How the Bible Can Help Us Teach Anything
RIM-0309
Pirkei Avot 5:26 teaches “Hafoch Ba, Hafoch Ba DeKula Ba – turn it over and over because everything is in it” There is nothing in our lives that cannot find an origin or directive in the Bible. From family dinners and environmental concerns to teaching children and honest dealings, by bringing Biblical references to everything we teach we maintain and strengthen the traditional core that holds all Jews together.
Presenter: Leora Pushett
Date: Tuesday, March 9
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
Teaching and Learning Styles: Learning How You Teach to Teach How They Learn
How you teach has a significant impact on how your students learn. Participate in this engaging session as we delve into understanding teaching styles as well as evaluating your own. Learn practical applications for the classroom in how to find a balanced approach in order to reach all students. Limited enrollment.
Presenter: Gila Haor
Date: Thursday, April 15
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
Differentiating Instruction through Storytelling
Rescheduled for April 11th at 3pm
Learn how to use storytelling to reach all learners. Special program presented in conjunction with Beth Shalom Congregation of Columbia through the generous funding of The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Fund for the Enrichment of Jewish Education of THE ASSOCIATED
Presenter: Eva Grayzel
Date: February 10
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
Ulpan
Ulpan for Beginners
This weekly 10-session course offers a warm introduction (or review, if it’s been a long time!) for adults who would like to study Hebrew starting with letters. Learn the fundamentals you need to read and begin to understand the Hebrew language. Content will focus on letter identification, phonetic reading, and introductory vocabulary. The skills will help you support your students in the classroom or continue your studies in Judaism. The course will meet weekly, exclusive of holidays.
Instructor: Zohara Chaban
Dates: Mondays, beginning 10/19
Times: 6:30-8:00 pm
Location: CJE
Cost: Educators at CJE Partner Schools - Free; Community Members: $100
Ulpan - Intermediate Level
This weekly 10 session course is for learners who can read Hebrew text and are ready to move into translation and conversational skills. Content will focus on extending your vocabulary and learning how to use adjectives, verbs, and pronouns in conversation. Improve your ability to share the language with your students, follow along with better understanding during services, or prepare yourself for your upcoming trip to Israel!
Instructor: Zohara Chaban
Dates: Tuesdays, beginning 10/20
Times: 6:30-8:00 pm
Location: CJE
Cost: Educators at CJE Partner Schools - Free; Community Members: $100
Reveal Israel
ISR- 101
Teachers are invited for an all-day retreat focusing on revealing Israel in your curriculum. Together with Michael Weiger, Executive Director of Melitz www.melitzamerica.org and CJE staff, we will explore Israel “beyond the camel and the conflict” using modern and traditional text, values projects, case studies, technology and more. You will explore an Israel narrative for your school and begin the year long process of drafting new or revising existing Israel curriculum. Select educators will be eligible for the Moreh Derech program; a year-long mentorship with an Israeli educator culminating with a mifgash in Israel! Lunch, Snacks and Materials Included
Immediately following the all-day retreat, a community-wide Israel Engagement summit will commence. Retreat participants are invited to stay. (summit will not count for additional Rimon hours)
Reveal Israel is funded by a generous grant from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Fund for the Enrichment of Jewish Education
Principal approval is required before submission of registration. Please contact Amian Frost Kelemer at akelemer@cjeb.org or at 410-735-5007 for more information on Reveal Israel.
Presenters: Melitz and CJE Staff
Date: November 16
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: Park Heights JCC
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There is no office higher than that of a teacher of youth, for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind, soul, character of the child. No office should be regarded with greater respect.
William Ellery Channing
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Early Childhood
Rimon sessions this year for early childhood educators are offered in sets of three. From discipline to literacy, and curriculum methods to Mimi Chenfeld Brodsky, there’s much to choose from!
Subsidized, discounted and free courses are not eligible for Crane reimbursement. Please contact DJ Schneider Jensen at djensen@cjeb.org if you have questions regarding course content, fees, or stipends.
Maryland State Child Care Credential
The Maryland Child Care Credential recognizes early child educators for exceeding the requirements of State licensing regulations. Each level recognizes an early childhood educator's achievement for a specific amount of training, experience and professional activity. This is a voluntary program for all registered child care center staff. Early childhood educators can receive up to $1000 per year. Forms and more information is available at
http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/MSDE/
divisions/child_care/credentials/train
All professional development training opportunities created for early childhood educators will have a core knowledge content area next to its title. This is to help those going through credentialing identify the content area of each session. Core of Knowledge is divided into six major areas:
1. child development
2. curriculum
3. professionalism
4. community
5. special needs
6. health, safety and nutrition.
The Center for Jewish Education is an approved trainer through the Office of Child Care.
CANCELLED
Infant/Toddler Development
MSDE-45
This course fulfills the Maryland State Department of Education 45 hour requirement for all childcare staff
Instructor: Ilene Vogelstein
Dates: Mondays beginning October 12
Time: 6:30pm-9:00pm
Location: CJE
Course fee: $300/$150 for teachers in CJE partner schools
CANCELLED
Jewish Values in the EC Classroom
ECE-S201
For educators of children 2-5 years old (30 hours)
Learn how to integrate Jewish values into your everyday lessons
Instructors: Jodi Fishman/ DJ Jensen
Dates: Tuesdays beginning September 29
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: CJE
Course fee: $225/$100 for teachers in CJE partner schools
Child Development and Curriculum
MSDE-90
This course fulfills MSDE 90 hour requirement for senior early childhood educators
Instructor: DJ Jensen
Dates: Wednesdays beginning September 23
Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: CJE
Course fee: $500/$250 for teachers in CJE partner schools
Classroom Set-Up/ Discipline/Challenging Behaviors
ECE-S202
This track is designed for early childhood educators who are interested in making changes to their classroom in order to help facilitate better learning and create a socially competent environment. New teachers are encouraged to join us. These classes will include time for group discussion, reflection and role modeling opportunities. Alternatives to yelling, time out, and calling parents are accepted and discussed. Bring us your ideas!
While we recommend attending all 3 sessions in this series, it is not required.
Core Knowledge: Child Development
Dates: Classroom Set-Up with DJ, Thursday November 5
Discipline with Kelly Weinberg, Thursday December 3
Challenging Behaviors with Melissa Lebowitz, Thursday January 7
Time: 7-9pm
Location: CJE
Language and Literacy/Math/Science
ECE-S203
What do the children learn all day? Do you have a plan? How do you explain to the parents what is happening in the classroom? This class will break down 3 of the domains of learning readiness, and discuss how to incorporate them into your class with hands on, child initiated activities.
While we recommend attending all 3 sessions in this series, it is not required.
Core Knowledge: Curriculum
Dates: Language and Literacy with Sandy Gold Raynes Wednesday January 20
Math with Adrienne Reicher and Paige Schwartz Wednesday, December 9
Science, Wednesday February 17
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
Understanding Montessori/Reggio Emilia/Alternative Curricula
ECE-S204
There are so many different types of curriculum out there. Which to choose? What do they mean? Is one better than the other? This series will share first hand experiences from teachers working in different settings.
While we recommend attending all 3 sessions in this series, it is not required.
Core Knowledge: Curriculum
Dates: Understanding Montessori January 11 POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
Understanding Reggio Emilia with Joanie Smeltz Reggio February 22
Understanding Alternative Curricula with DJ April 12
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
Meet the Master Series: Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld
ECE-S301
This year early childhood educators are able to participate in a 3 part book study in addition to an evening of entertainment with the wonderful Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld!
For the past fifty years, Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld has been a teacher, speaker, and writer in the early childhood field. Currently, Ms. Chenfeld teaches children of all ages, consults, and writes in central Ohio. She also conducts seminars and keynote presentations around the country and is a part-time instructor at Otterbein College in Westerfield, OH. Her previous books, including Teaching by Heart and Teaching in the Key of Life, are widely used in early childhood education.
Attendance at all sessions are required
Core Knowledge: Professionalism
Dates: Thursdays, December 10, February 4, March 18
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
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The teacher is often the first to discover the talented and unusual scholar. How he handles and encourages, or discourages such a child, may make all the difference in the world to that child’s future—and to the world.
Loren Eiseley
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Yad b’Yad Jewish Special Educators
Yad b’Yad Jewish Special Educators Network is a vital network of stakeholders in special education who share the concerns, know the challenges and can provide the insights needed regarding Jewish special education for our community’s children.
When Anxiety Rules: Understanding Students with Emotional
Behavioral Disorders
YBY-201
Including Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Oppositional Defiance Disorder
- WHAT are the characteristics of common Emotional and Behavioral Disorders?
- HOW do you know when unusual behavior requires intervention?
- WHICH strategies address this population effectively?
Presenter: Golda Ginsburg, Ph.D
Date: Monday, December 7
Time: 7-9 PM
Location: CJE
SPECIAL ED U Book Review: The Explosive Child
By: R. Greene
YBY-301
This Book Club is designed for: Special Educators, Social Workers, Speech Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, and Psychologists.
For more information, contact Yael Zelinger 410-735-5023 yzelinger@cjebaltimore.org.
Facilitated by: Dr. Aviva Weisbord
Date: Monday, January 4
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: CJE
SPECIAL ED U Workshop on FBAs & BIPs
YBY-302
How to conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments and design effective Behavior Intervention Plans.
This workshop is exclusive for Special Educators.
For more information contact Yael Zelinger 410-735-5023 yzelinger@cjebaltimore.org.
Presenter: Dr. Jonathan Lasson
Date: Tuesday, January 19
Time: 6:30-7 Networking at Eden Cafe, 7-9 pm Session
Location: CJE Conference Room
SPECIAL ED U Symposium
YBY-500
This workshop is exclusive for Special Educators.
For more information contact Yael Zelinger 410-735-5023 yzelinger@cjebaltimore.org.
Presenter: TBA
Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010
Time: 2-5 pm
Location: CJE
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A teacher effects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops.
-Henry Adams
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Conferences and Symposia
CJE conferences and symposia offer an opportunity for educators and professionals to gather in learning about topics related to secular and Jewish education. Our various sessions allow participants to engage in lectures, discussions, and activities with renowned speakers, presenters, and organizations that enhance the education of learners in all age groups.
Yom Iyun 5770: Israel: Teaching the Primary Source
RIM-500
HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED
Contact Tikki to register 410-735-5024 tspodek@cjeb.org
Learn how to engage students in learning through the use of primary sources. Why read about Israel, when you can examine artifacts, analyze photography, and hear firsthand accounts of experiences in Eretz Yisrael?
The Kotel Tunnels: LIVE!!! (all attendees)
Engage in real time with an actual archaeologist currently excavating the Kotel tunnels! Our videoconference will allow you to ask questions and learn about the real artifacts being discovered everyday beside the Western Wall. Hear about what we now know about life in ancient Jerusalem and learn how you can help your students participate in a virtual field trip.
Breakout Sessions: (attendees will participate in one)
The Jewish Lens: Focusing on Photography
Imagine a classroom where students are so immersed in talking about a photograph that time stands still. A space where young teenagers passionately debate and connect around issues of Jewish values, history and text. Where they research Jewish communities - and to boot, learn the craft of photography. Imagine that it’s your classroom. Engage in a study of photographs of Israel. Learn about the land and its people and take back questioning skills and strategies to help your students make the connection.
Experiences in Words: Written and Oral
Every individual experiences Israel differently. From the process of planning a trip or aliyah to visiting holy sites to simply breathing in the smells of the environment and food, Israel speaks to us. How do we use those voices and writings to help students draw their own conclusions? Learn about the variety of speakers available to you as a teacher, and learn how to best utilize travelers' diaries, immigrants, shinshinim, documents, and even your rabbi in engaging conversation to help your students go beyond the textbook and into the human experience.
Congregational Principals will register their teachers to ensure balanced session attendance for each school. Day School Principals interested in sending participants should contact Autumn for seat availability and registration details.
Presenters: Western Wall Heritage Foundation, The Jewish Lens, Melitz
Date: Sunday, December 20
Time: 8:45am-12:00pm
Location: PH JCC
Reveal Israel
ISR- 101
School leadership teams are invited for an all-day retreat focusing on revealing Israel in your curriculum. Together with Michael Weiger, Executive Director of Melitz www.melitzamerica.org and CJE staff, we will explore Israel “beyond the camel and the conflict” using modern and traditional text, values projects, case studies, technology and more. Your school team will explore an Israel narrative for your school and begin the year long process of drafting new or revising existing Israel curriculum. As a result of participation in the retreat, select schools will be eligible to choose from outstanding resource materials to enhance instruction. Additionally, select educators will be eligible for the Moreh Derech program; a year-long mentorship with an Israeli educator culminating with a mifgash in Israel! Lunch, Snacks and Materials Included
Immediately following the all-day retreat, a community-wide Israel Engagement summit will commence. Retreat participants are invited to stay.
Reveal Israel is funded by a generous grant from the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Fund for the Enrichment of Jewish Education
Principals must approve registration. Please contact Amian Frost Kelemer at akelemer@cjeb.org or at 410-735-5007 for more information on Reveal Israel.
Presenters: Melitz and CJE Staff
Date: November 16
Time: 10 am - 5 pm
Location: Park Heights JCC
Yad b’Yad Symposium
YBY-500
Presenter: TBA
Date: May 2
Time: 2-5 pm
Location: CJE
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“Raise up many pupils.”
-Pirke Avot I, 1
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Community Offerings
CJE recognizes that many of its programs fit the learning needs of community members beyond the teachers in our partner schools. The Associated and other funders generously subsidize course fees for educators in partner schools, but we often have spaces in the courses to share with other interested learners for a nominal fee.
The following programs are currently open to community members:
Ulpan
Ulpan for Beginners
This weekly 10-session course offers a warm introduction (or review, if it’s been a long time!) for adults who would like to study Hebrew starting with letters. Learn the fundamentals you need to read and begin to understand the Hebrew language. Content will focus on letter identification, phonetic reading, and introductory vocabulary. The skills will help you support your students in the classroom or continue your studies in Judaism. The course will meet weekly, exclusive of holidays.
Instructor: Zohara Chaban
Dates: Mondays, beginning 10/19
Times: 6:30-8:00 pm
Location: CJE
Cost: Educators in CJE Partner Schools- Free; Community Members: $100
Ulpan - Intermediate Level
This weekly 10 session course is for learners who can read Hebrew text and are ready to move into translation and conversational skills. Content will focus on extending your vocabulary and learning how to use adjectives, verbs, and pronouns in conversation. Improve your ability to share the language with your students, follow along with better understanding during services, or prepare yourself for your upcoming trip to Israel!
Dates: Tuesdays, beginning 10/20
Times: 6:30-8:00 pm
Location: CJE
Cost: Educators in CJE Partner Schools - Free; Community Members: $100
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