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What might happen if your students could build, reenact, or create experiences from Torah and Jewish life — not just read about them? In this session, we’ll define experiential education in Judaic studies and explore best practices for weaving it into your teaching in ways that enhance learning quality and depth. Whether you want to add a single experiential element to a lesson or reimagine an entire unit, you’ll leave with practical examples you can adapt for elementary or middle school classes.

In both literacy and mathematics, students need to make inferences, synthesize, and reflect on their thinking in order to build conceptual and procedural knowledge. In this workshop, participants will examine strategies for developing conceptual understanding and procedural knowledge in mathematics: comprehension strategies, vocabulary instruction, and self-monitoring strategies. A particular focus will be on how mathematical and literacy processes for problem-solving and metacognitive reflection support each other. Through problem-solving with manipulatives, games, and truly problematic contexts, participants will analyze the mathematical and literacy processes they used as well as the mathematical concepts and procedures they learned.

Kriah is not just another subject; it’s the foundation of all Torah learning. This webinar will delve into the unique aspects of teaching Kriah, distinct from English reading, and explore why it must be taught with precision, clarity, and intentionality from the start. We’ll uncover common causes of Kriah difficulties and how to identify and address them in daily instruction. Learn how to help students move from slow, conscious decoding to fluent, automatic reading by engaging the subconscious brain. The session will also focus on how to evaluate progress, maintain motivation, and ensure Kriah practice is appropriately leveled to meet the needs of each student.

The ancient Jewish practice of Havruta when combined with 21st-century learning science is a powerful strategy for fostering deep, joyful, and skillful student engagement. More than learning in pairs, Havruta equips each individual student to engage with their content and with one another in increasingly independent and substantive ways–whether they’re studying Chumash, Talmud, or even math.

In today’s world images are everywhere and if a picture is worth 1000 words, then developing visual literacy skills in today’s classroom is key to success. The ability to make meaning from images, graphics and video needs to be directly taught and positively impacts reading and writing skills. Some students have an easier time accessing and learning comprehension skills through visual methods and then can apply those newly learned skills when tackling text. This webinar will offer strategies for teaching visual literacy to deepen overall learning and support all learners.