September 2024: Developing & Nurturing Great Jewish Educators

Rabbi Shimshon Gewirtz, editor If You Don’t Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students! This is the catchy name of a book on educational leadership, and the imagery, while absurd, can be a helpful guide to […]

Ruhama Welcher and Suzanne Sackstein, Ph.D. The results of multiple research studies across a variety of contexts have found that the only factor that is consistently and significantly related to educational outcomes is teacher quality (see […]

Chanie Hertzel Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, the late chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, once stated: “Good leaders create followers, but great leaders create leaders.” Today, the students are our recipients, but […]

Dr. Bradley Herman Teachers are one of the most essential components of the school community supporting not only student academic outcomes but social-emotional success of students as well. There is broad academic literature that informs the […]

Ahuvah Heyman School culture starts at the top and filters down from the administrative leaders to the staff, including teachers and others, and then to the students. Because of this, great emphasis should be placed on […]

Mrs. Rivkie Gottlieb I walked into a classroom the other day as part of my daily walk-about and was presented with the most amazing dog-and-pony show from the teacher. The key giveaway was the students’ reaction […]

Rabbi Hillel Adler The Problem The education sector has been dealing with staffing shortages for several years and the trend is expected to continue. In 2023, 86% of U.S. K-12 public schools reported challenges in hiring […]

Rabbi Zecharia Weitz Schools out of town struggle with finding (and retaining) rebbeim, reflecting a very limited pool of applicants for limudei kodesh positions. One resource that many communities can tap to fill this need is […]

Rabbi Alan Berkowitz In the mid-afternoon of just about any school day, a group of students gathers in the Yeshivah of Flatbush Middle School conference room. Depending on the day, they will either engage with their […]

Miriam Gettinger We are in the human business; if we don’t have humans, we don’t have business!” This was the phrase used to headline the results of a December 2023 survey of 400 K-12 education recruiters […]

Rona Milch Novick, PhD I receive panicked calls from day school administrators seeking great teachers almost daily. Even as dean of the largest Jewish teacher preparation degree program in North America, I cannot meet their need […]

Rabbi Jeffrey (Yosef) Glanz, Ed. D. Excerpted from an Azrieli Paper at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration published in 2012. “In short, supervision is not so much a view of a teacher […]

Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky Mechanchim often find themselves facing the challenge of balancing time for themselves and their talmidim, especially when deciding how much time to spend on personal Torah learning. Rebbeim may want to continue to […]