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State of the Field Teacher As Text חורף תשע"ד • WINTER 2013 Day School Teachers Roundtable: 14 State of the Field 42 Teacher as Text Mobile Solutions for Active Families. Parents are on the go. That’s why we’ve made the FACTS system even more accessible. Parents can make payments, review account changes, view their payment schedule, and more—right from their preferred mobile device. Families can also get support from FACTS 24/7 on their timetable. Contact us today to learn how FACTS’ technology makes tuition management easy for families. Tuition Management // Grant & Aid Assessment // Donor Services // 877.606.2587 // FACTSmgt.com Facts_Haiydon-Ad_0422.indd 1 4/22/13 1:50 PM in this issue: RAVSAK News COLUMNS: From the Editor, page 5 • From the Desk of Rebekah Farber, RAVSAK Chair, page 6 • Good & Welfare, page 7 • Dear Cooki, page 8 • Jonathan Woocher, Keeping the Vision, p. 30 • eRAVSAK Highlights, page 51 • Welcoming New Team Members, page 66 PROGRAMS: Hebrew Language Council, page 7 • Head of School Professional Excellence Project, page 13 • Sulam 2.0 and Alumni, page 23 • Teacher Day at the Conference, page 25 • Reshet RAVSAK, page 31 • RAVSAK/Pardes Jewish Day School Leadership Conference, page 32-33 • RAVSAK Board Retreat, page 41 • Enrollment Study, page 44 • Moot Beit Din, page 45 • Hebrew Poetry Contest, page 46 • Jewish Art Contest, pages 56-57 THE PROFESSION Inverting the Triangle: 10 Reimagining This So-Called Profession Barbara Rosenblit 14 State of the Field: Sharon Feiman-Nemser, Amy Ament, Miriam Heller Stern, Teacher Training for Day Schools Rona Novick, Shira Epstein, Susan Wall 20 Painting a Teacher Portrait Nancy Pryzant Picus 24 School Quality Depends on Teacher Quality Eran Tamir 26 A Model to Support Faculty and Build Morale Jill Kessler Don’t Forget the Teacher When 28 Teaching with Technology Jared Matas TEACHERS IN OUR SCHOOLS pages 34-37 ROLE MODELS “Adorn Yourself”: 38 Mindful Model Learners Jaimi Boehm and Devin Villareal 42 I Am a Teacher, I Am a Text Joshua Rabin What Makes a Jewish Day School Teacher? 48 The Connection Between Passion and Teaching Sarah Levy 52 Jewish Educators Walk the Walk Frumie Posner 54 What Day Schools Need Is... More Cool Teachers Judd Levingston MENTORS AND LEARNERS 58 Mentoring: A Key to Teacher Retention Jamie Faith Woods 60 Every Teacher Needs a Teacher Shiffy Landa הידיעון 62 What Does It Take to Teach Israel? Jonah Hassenfeld Teaching Los Angeles / Teaching Tel-Aviv: 64 • HaYidion The Lessons That Last Bat-hen Zeron [3] HaYidion: The RAVSAK Journal is a publication of RAVSAK: The Jewish Community Day School Network. It is published quarterly for distribution to RAVSAK member schools, associate members, and other Jewish and general education organizations. No articles may be reproduced or distributed without express written permission of RAVSAK. All rights reserved. Subscriptions are $36/year. Executive Editor: Dr. Barbara Davis Editor: Elliott Rabin, PhD Design: Adam Shaw-Vardi Editorial Board Rabbi Marc Baker, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA Rabbi Matthew Bellas, Vancouver Talmud Torah, Vancouver, BC Jamie Cluchey, Levey Day School, Portland, ME Dean Goldfein, Contra Costa Jewish Day School, Lafayette, CA Jerry Isaak-Shapiro, Agnon School, Beachwood, OH Adina Kaneeld, Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital Dr. Andrea Lieber, Silver Academy, Harrisburg, PA Rabbi Jack Nahmod, Abraham Joshua Heschel School, New York, NY Rabbi Harry Pell, Schechter Westchester, Hartsdale, NY Eric Petersiel, Leo Baeck Day School, Toronto, ON Nancy Pryzant Picus, Schlenker School, Houston, TX Dr. Lila Pinto, Colegio Hebreo Maguen David, Cuajimalpa, MX Daniella Pressner, Akiva School, Nashville, TN Dr. Sarah Shulkind, Sinai Akiba Academy, Los Angeles, CA Stacey Sweet, The Brandeis School, Lawrence, NY Amy Wasser, Hillel Academy, Tampa, FL Advisory Panel Sandee Brawarsky, Dr. Jeremy Dauber, Rabbi Eddie Harwitz, Aron Hirt-Manheimer, Mark Joe, Margot Lurie, Alana Newhouse, Dr. Renee Rubin Ross, Daniel Septimus, Dr. Jonathan Woocher RAVSAK Board of Directors Rebekah Farber (Chair), Uri Benhamron, Lisa Breslau, Dr. Barbara Davis, Matt Heilicher, Dr. Marc N. Kramer, Paul Levitch, Zipora Schorr, Joseph Steiner, Arnee Winshall (founding chair), Lesley Zafran Advertising Information Please contact Marla Rottenstreich at [email protected] or by phone at 646-450-7280. RAVSAK 120 West 97th Street, New York, NY 10025 p: 212-665-1320 • f: 212-665-1321 • e: [email protected] • w: www.ravsak.org The views expressed in this journal do not necessarily reect the positions of RAVSAK. RAVSAK would like to thank our associate members: הידיעון HaYidion • HaYidion [4] ¿From by Barbara Davis the Editor In a recent book review, Professor Yehudah cess is a great teacher providing great instruction.” Mirsky of Brandeis wrote, “The meanings Yet try as we might, we cannot defi ne or quantify what makes a good of ‘Torah’ are inexhaustible, but its plainest teacher. We all know one when we experience the tremendous growth sense is ‘teaching.’ It does not exist apart and excitement that comes from studying with one, but good teach- ers are very diverse in their qualities and qualifi cations and teachers from being communicated. resonate diff erently with diff erent students. Educator and author Beth Lewis identifi ed the following six qualities that contribute to a “Th at circulation between human beings, and between humans and successful, durable, and happy teaching career: “1. Successful teach- God, both gives Torah life and teaches us that Torah itself teaches ers hold high expectations; 2. Th ey think creatively; 3. Top teachers life. We Jews are so in love with our texts and textuality that we bid are versatile and sensitive; 4. Th ey are curious, confi dent, and evolv- to lose sight of the human immediacy—typos, misprints and all— ing; 5. Th ey are imperfectly human; 6. Successful teachers emphasize without which Torah is a body lacking a soul.” Th e links that connect the fun in learning and in life.” And yet I think back on the teacher Torah and humankind are teachers. “Get for yourself a teacher,” says from whom I learned the most in graduate school, and the only one Yehoshua ben Perachiah in Pirkei Avot 1:6, noting that in so doing of these qualities he possessed was #5! Despite his failings, he taught you will “acquire a friend” and coincidentally adding the crucial man- me to think in unimaginably new ways and opened up my eyes wider date: “judge every person favorably.” than they had ever been opened before. Teachers connect us to our past, guide us in our present and prepare In our Jewish day schools, we must appreciate and respect our teach- us for our future. Th e teachers of elementary school children proba- ers and value the many ways in which they serve our students. Th ey bly spend more hours with their students than do the children’s par- open the gates to Jewish learning, without which we do not exist as a ents, certainly in today’s busy world. Yet teachers are at once much people. RAVSAK’s Executive Director Marc Kramer recently wrote praised and much maligned. Th eirs, as authors in this issue ofHaY- that it is not enough for us and our students to just “feel Jewish,” to idion point out, is a task that must be an end unto itself, for a career have a “Jewish identity.” Judaism requires a knowledge base that goes ladder inevitably leads out of the classroom. far beyond “Mah Nishtanah,” the blessings for the Chanukah can- dles and eating bagels. Our teachers provide this base. Our nation is currently struggling with issues related to teachers: how to evaluate them, how to train them, how to fi re them, whether Maimonides wrote that “just as a person is commanded to honor and to arm them. Th e New York State Commissioner of Education was revere his father, so is he under an obligation to honor and revere his recently booed off a stage by an audience of parents and teachers an- teacher, even to a greater extent than his father, for his father gave him gered by the implementation of the Common Core curriculum and life in this world, while his teacher who instructs him in wisdom secures related testing. In response, he issued a statement entitled, “Teaching for him life in the world to come.” Th is issue ofHaYidion celebrates Is the Core,” in which he wrote, “Although the work [of education] teachers, recognizes their challenges and addresses their issues in ways is complex, the vision is simple. Th e best preparation for student suc- that we hope will honor their commitment and professionalism! ¿ Dr. Barbara Davis is the secretary of RAVSAK’s Board of Directors, executive editor of HaYidion and head of school at the Syracuse Hebrew Day School in Dewitt, NY. [email protected] הידיעון RAVSAK would like to thank Legacy Heritage Fund for its generous support of HaYidion. • HaYidion RAVSAK would also like to thank Rebekah and Howard Farber and Arnee R. and Walter A. Winshall for supporting HaYidion. [5] From the desk of Rebekah Farber, RAVSAK Chair s usual, the first couple of months of the new school year have been rently have. We look forward to sharing pictures of our new offices filled with excitement and enthusiasm, especially having coincid- and news of the move in the next issue of HaYidion. ed with the Jewish high holidays. We spent the entire month of September trying to balance school duties, shortened school The RAVSAK Board has been very busy meeting the challenges asso- days, and interrupted currriculum with praying cooking and ciated with these wonderful changes, focusing primarily on fundrais- entertaining. It was both exhilarating and exhausting. Octo- ing, and stewarding our Jewish community day school network in a ber came with great relief and the first real chance to assess time of major field upheaval and the many conversations occasioned the state of our schools, of our boards and of our network, by the Pew Report.
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