| Sunday, August 8 |
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| 8:30 am-9:15 am |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:15 am-10:45 am |
Workshops
Judith Schiller and Jill Cahn - Learning From Experiential Adventures
Laurie Gross-Kammer - The Choreography of the Classroom
Rabbi Shawn Zevit - Unlocking Holy Sparks: Teaching Text Through Bibliodrama and Other Midrashic Approaches
Rabbi Moshe Berger - Negotiating Two Mutually-Exclusive Approaches to Life: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and the Rabbinic Majority
Amnon Ophir - Write On for Israel |
11:00 am-12:30 pm
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Workshops
Leah Gawel - Torah Time: Teaching Parashat HaShavuah to Young Children (preschool-2nd grade)- part one
Judy Schiller and Jill Cahn - Learning From Experiential Adventures
Joel Lurie Grishaver - Teaching Jewishly: Using Jewish Values to Manage Your Classroom
Rabbi Stacy Schlein - Who Comes First in Family Education? Shabbaton, a case study
Nachama Moskowitz - What's the Big Idea? |
| 12:30 pm-1:15 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30 pm-3:15 pm |
Opening Program for All Conference Participants |
| 3:15 pm-3:30 pm |
Snack, Stretch and Schmooze |
| 3:30 pm-5:00 pm |
Afternoon Session: Intensive Tracks
Joel Lurie Grishaver and Rabbi Phil Warmflash - Developing Families & Communities That Love Torah: Tool and Signposts for the Journey
Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski and Dr. Alan Levenson - The Biblical Conversation: Within Tanakh and Across the Ages
Dr. Lifsa Schachter - Total Physical Response - Hebrew Through Movement: A Brain Friendly Way to Learn Hebrew
Dr. Shoshana Silberman - Active Jewish Learning: Strategies to Enliven Your Classroom |
| 3:30 pm-5:00 pm |
Workshops
Leah Gawel - Torah Time: Teaching Parashat HaShavuah to Young Children (preschool-2nd grade)- part two
Rabbi Guy Greene - Faith Development in Children: Kinesthetic Modalities of Prayer for Children in the Concrete Stage of Development. Ages 5-12
Howard Gudell - Israel's High Tech Connection
David Rosen - Reaching Jewish Teens – Inspiring Service
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| 6:00 pm-8:00 pm |
BBQ Under the Stars and Kumsitz @ Mandel JCC |
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| Monday, August 9 |
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| 9:00-9:30 am |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:30 am-12:30 pm |
ECE Programming
Jewish Reggio Field Trip
Morning Session: Intensive Tracks
Joel Lurie Grishaver and Rabbi Phil Warmflash - Developing Families & Communities That Love Torah: Tool and Signposts for the Journey
Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski and Dr. Alan Levenson - The Biblical Conversation: Within Tanakh and Across the Ages
Dr. Lifsa Schachter - Total Physical Response - Hebrew Through Movement: A Brain Friendly Way to Learn Hebrew
Dr. Shoshana Silberman - Active Jewish Learning: Strategies to Enliven Your Classroom |
| 9:30-10:45 |
Workshops
Dr. Brian Amkraut - Creating Jewish leadership or creating Jewish community: What is the purpose of Jewish education?
Rebecca Starr - How to Better Utilize Your Madrichim
J.T. Waldman - Techy Torah Study
Rabbi Steve Segar - Finding Balance and Synergy Between the Personal and the Collective: The Dance of Keva and Kavannah within the Tradition of Jewish Prayer
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| 10:45-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Workshops
Rabbi Steve Greenberg - Contemplating Cezanne: Eat Drink, and Change the World
Rabbi Aaron Starr - Beyond Blood and Lust: Using Serious Text Study to Reach Our Teenagers
Shawn Zevit - Dynamic Davening: Creative and Engaging Approaches to Prayer
Geoff Berdy - Tachlis Teaching
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| 12:00-2:00 pm |
ECE Programming
Dr. Nancy Barbour - Professional Growth: Becoming the Best Early Childhood Educators We Can Be |
| 12:30-1:30 pm |
Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 pm |
Workshops
Harvey Leven - Making Your Hebrew Class Come Alive: Gaming for Teaching Fluency of Hebrew Prayer Reading part 1 of 2
Rabbi Steve Greenberg - Gays in the Garden: Eden, Sodom, and the Laws of Leviticus
Rabbi Guy Greene - Utilizing Kabbalah and Jewish Meditation in Jewish Educational Settings
Rebecca Starr - Becoming a Reflective Practitioner
Dr. Shoshana Silberman - How Jewish Children Conceptualize God
Dan Weiss - Talmudic Tips for Teachers
Lisa Soble-Siegmann - Yalkut: A Collection of Innovative JFE programs from Cleveland and Detroit Family Educator
Seymour Kopelowitz - Text Study and Practicum: Embarrassment in Public
Marcia Anouchi - A Taste of Total Physical Response Hebrew (TPR)
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| 2:00 pm-3:30 pm |
ECE Programming
ECE Workshops |
| 3:00-3:30 pm |
Snack, Stretch and Schmooze |
| 2:00 pm-3:30 pm |
ECE Programming
Lisa Soble-Siegmann and Detroit Family Educators - Jewish Family Education for the Very Young
ECE workshop |
| 3:30-5:00 pm |
Workshops
Harvey Leven - Making Your Hebrew Class Come Alive: Multi-Modal Techniques for Teaching Prayer Concepts
Joel Lurie Grishaver - Stories We Pray: the Origins of Prayers and the Stories Behind Them
Andee Liberman - Technology: Jewish "Apps" for Teens
J.T. Waldman - Tagged Tanakh: The Biblical Conversation
Mark Davidson and Dahlia Harris - Promoting Ethical Growth in Jewish Teens
Susan Wyner - How Jewish Children Conceptualize God - companion session
Nachama Moskowitz - What Works in Supplementary Schools
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| 5:00-6:30 pm |
Session and Dinner
Dr. Alan Levenson - Congregational Lay Leaders and Teams
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| 5:30-7:15 pm |
Open Hours at the Maltz Museum for Conference Participants |
| 7:00-8:30 pm |
Evening Lecture
Rabbi Steve Greenberg - "Gayness and God"
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| Tuesday, August 10 |
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| 9:00-9:30 am |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:30am-10:45 am |
Rabbinic Forum
Rabbi Steve Greenberg - Rabbis without Borders |
| 9:30 am-12:30 pm |
Morning Session: Intensive Tracks
Joel Lurie Grishaver and Rabbi Phil Warmflash - Developing Families & Communities That Love Torah: Tool and Signposts for the Journey
Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski and Dr. Alan Levenson - The Biblical Conversation: Within Tanakh and Across the Ages
Dr. Lifsa Schachter - Total Physical Response - Hebrew Through Movement: A Brain Friendly Way to Learn Hebrew
Dr. Shoshana Silberman - Active Jewish Learning: Strategies to Enliven Your Classroom |
| 9:30-10:45 |
Workshops
Terri Ginsburg - Classroom Management: Kavod = Respect
J.T. Waldman - Tagging the Tanakh: Turning The Future Into The Past
Andee Liberman - Israel out of the Box: Israel with Middle Schoolers |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 pm |
Rabbinic Forum
J.T. Waldman - Tagged Tanach Project |
| 11:00-12:30 |
Workshops
Sue Arnold - Some S.Y. Agnon Short Stories to Study and Share with Students
Sheila Balk and Judith Schiller - It's All Informal
Rabbi Jeffrey Schein - Avatar and Judaism
Geoff Berdy - Midrashic Experience
Dr. Ron Brauner - What Happens to the Minority Voice? The Sanctity of Dissent
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| 2:30 pm-3:00 pm |
Rabbinic Forum
Rabbi Tamar Kamionkowski and Dr. Moshe Berger - Rabbinic Forum |
| 1:30 pm-3:00 pm |
Workshops
Harvey Leven - Planning for Success: If We Don't Know Where We're Going, We're Liable to End Up Someplace Else - part one
Cheri Ellowitz - Implementing a Hebrew Program for All Learners: The Mitkadem Self-Paced Model
Diane Lavin - Using the Debate Format to Teach Bible in Middle School
Corinne Stavish - Stories off the Page for Any Age
Dr. Moshe Berger - Prayer After the Holocaust: Rabban Gamliel and His Detractors
Rabbi Phil Warmflash and Dr. Jeffrey Schein - Stepping Inside the Kadima Volume and Process |
| 3:00 pm-3:30 pm |
Snack, Stretch and Schmooze |
| 3:30 pm-5:00 pm |
Rabbinic Forum
Rabbi Tamar Kamionkowski and Dr. Moshe Berger - Rabbinic Forum |
| 3:30 pm-5:00 pm |
Workshops
Harvey Leven - Planning for Success: The Right Methods to Accomplish Our Objectives - part two
Rabbi Steve Greenberg - Adam and Adamah: Biblical and Rabbinic Models of the Human-Earth Relationship
Amnon Ophir - The Real Israel: Soft advocacy and informal experiences vs. conventional wisdom in Israel education and engagement
Rabbi Enid Lader - A Taste of Active Jewish Learning
Lisa Soble-Siegmann - Engagement of Jewish Teens and Their Families: An Open Forum
Dr. Ronald A. Brauner - Bet Hillel and Bet Shammai: Same Torah, Different Readings |
| 5:30 pm-6:30 pm |
Dinner |
| 7:30 pm-9:00 pm |
Evening Program
Everything's an Argument with Storyteller Corinne Stavish and Singer-Songriter Noah Budin |
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| Wednesday, August 11 |
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| 9:00am -9:30 am |
Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:30 am-11:00 am |
Morning Session: Intensive Tracks
Joel Lurie Grishaver and Rabbi Phil Warmflash - Developing Families & Communities That Love Torah: Tool and Signposts for the Journey
Dr. Tamar Kamionkowski and Dr. Alan Levenson - The Biblical Conversation: Within Tanakh and Across the Ages
Dr. Lifsa Schachter - Total Physical Response - Hebrew Through Movement: A Brain Friendly Way to Learn Hebrew
Dr. Shoshana Silberman - Active Jewish Learning: Strategies to Enliven Your Classroom |
| 9:30 am-11:00 am |
Workshops
Corinne Stavish - Making Midrashim: The Spaces between the Words
Rabbi Jeffrey Schein and Dr. Roxanne Sukol - Wild Food. Wild Torah
Amnon Ophir - Israel LTD: How Should We Expose Our Kids to Israel? Reflections on the Real Israel
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| 11:15 am-12:30 pm |
Closing Program for All Conference Participants |
| 12:30 pm-1:30 pm |
Lunch and Farewells |
