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Hot Topics: The Deaths of Garner and Brown

The deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown—both black Americans killed by white police officers—have sparked protests around the country, reawakening the debate about whether America’s criminal justice system is racist.  With the latest Hot Topics: The Deaths of Garner and Brown resource, you can help students discuss the need to improve the relationship between police officers and citizens of all races.

Looking for Quick Resources for Tu B'Shevat? Our Pinterest Board Has You Covered.

Pinterest is a great place to collect educational resources for almost any need in your classroom, but can sometimes take an excess of time to find just the right thing you're looking for.  This Tu B'Shevat leave the searching up to us and use our 'Our Place in the Universe' board for all of your resource needs. 

How Well are Your Students Decoding? Find Out Now!

You're back in the swing of the second half of school, but are your students? You can help them brush up on their Hebrew skills while tracking their progress in decoding with the Hebrew Reading Assessment by Lesley Litman. 

It's All Done! Connect Students to Israel with ISRAEL21c Teacher's Edition Summary Packet

Last year Behrman House presented ISRAEL21c Teacher's Edition Summary Packet to assist educators as they find ways to enrich students' exploration of Israel with articles and videos. 

Educator Gets Results by Encouraging Hebrew Practice at Home with the Online Learning Center

We know that students are more successful learning Hebrew when they also practice a little at home. Here's how one educator encourages them, using the Online Learning Center. Lynn Calnek, Principal and Director of Life Long Learning at Temple Kol Tikvah in Davidson, NC, teaches 6-10 students who are new to Hebrew, learning the Alef Bet.  "It's hard for me to have tutors for each individual student," Calnek said. "The Online Learning Center gives me a better way to teach these students all together."

The Best of 2014

2014 brought so many great things to Behrman House this year. As the year is winding down we wanted to take another look at our favorite additions and what's to come for 2015. 

4 Ways to Encourage Students' Learning This Winter Break

It's important to help students maintain their Hebrew progress while they are on winter break.  In a recent article from The Washington Post, they presented 4 tips for students during break. We were inspired and put a Jewish touch on their suggestions for a more Jewish focus.  Here is how families can prevent educational atrophy:

Hebrew Through Play: Days of the Week

You shoot, you score, you learn!  Introduce students to the new Basketball Hebrew Days of the Week game, from the popular Alef Bet Quest. This new game allows students to shoot basketballs in a three-point shooting contest. Students will learn to recognize the days of the week in Hebrew and work towards a high score!

Shoot Some Hoops and Tell Us: What's Your High Score?

We've refreshed your favorite primer, Alef Bet Quest, with a few new games for the school year-- how well have you done? After completing each lesson, a matching interactive game will be available to help students learn how to decode Hebrew.  One of the new games allows students to shoot basketballs in a three-point shooting contest. Students will learn to recognize Hebrew letters and vowels as they play through both Jewish cultural words and everyday Hebrew words. 

OLC Secret New Feature: Get a Head Start

This past summer the Online Learning Center gained some new features to better suit your classroom needs, including this secret feature for a quick and easy head start to setting up your classrooms. As part of the changes we made to the OLC this year, there is a small, secret new feature for you to get a head start setting up your OLC classes even before you purchase your licenses!

FREE Hebrew Practice Tools Now Available in the Online Learning Center

You have three great reasons to start a class right now in the Online Learning Center--free prayer practice, free Hebrew letter game, and free Hebrew keyboard--available right inside your online class.

Save and Save Again: Adding Students to Classes in the OLC

Many of us are well into the school year and have Online Learning Center classes up and running. In fact nearly 3,000 students and 480 teachers have already logged in this year and begun practicing and posting online. And more are getting started. To help you with the late additions to your classes, here is a refresher for adding students to existing classes in the OLC.

Hineni is Coming to the OLC and We Need YOUR Help!

The Hineni series has been a long time favorite for teaching prayer with meaning  and soon we will introduce Hineni for the Online Learning Center! We're looking now for teachers to sign up to be testers later this fall. Hineni for the OLC testers will test one of the seven modules that will be available for the OLC. The full seven modules will feature 35 prayers and blessings, including:

Prepare Parents for a Smooth Start to this Year's Classes

The new school year is here and we want to help you guide parents for a quick and smooth start.  Help parents (and yourself!) be classroom ready by including permission forms right along with registration packets. If your parents register online you can use a check box in an online form. 

New Features Now Available for the Online Learning Center

Your excellent feedback about the Online Learning Center has led to big changes to better suit your classroom needs.  Improvements and new features are to ensure that you can provide your teachers with a flexible, easy-to-use, and transformational tool that lets students engage in Jewish learning using the kinds of technology they use for the rest of their lives.  You will now see the following changes to your learning space:

Coming Soon: Hineni for the OLC

The Hineni series has been a long time favorite for teaching prayer with meaning. You've been asking and soon we will introduce Hineni for the Online Learning Center! Seven modules will feature 35 prayers and blessings, including:

New Alef Bet Quest Games Available Now!

We’ve refreshed your favorite primer, Alef Bet Quest with a few new games for the upcoming school year. After completing each lesson, a matching interactive game will be available to help students learn how to decode Hebrew.  One new game allows students to shoot basketballs in a three-point shooting contests after choosing the correct Hebrew letters. Students will  learn to recognize Hebrew letters and vowels as they play through both Jewish cultural words and everyday Hebrew words.

Developing games and apps: Can one size fit all?

Do you have an android phone, but still enjoy using an iPad from apple?  Maybe you have an iphone, but your colleagues are all on android. Today, everyone uses  different devices. Some folks are on old phones, some new. Sometimes in one household you will find one spouse on apple, another on android, and the kids on a  third. 

Big Changes are Underway in the Online Learning Center

Your excellent feedback about the Online Learning Center has led to big changes to better suit your classroom needs.  Improvements and new features are to ensure that you can provide your teachers with a flexible, easy-to-use, and transformational tool that lets students engage in Jewish learning using the kinds of technology they use for the rest of their lives.  At the end of this month you will see the following changes to your learning space:

Digital Badges Incent Practice and Show Students' Accomplishments

As your students complete lessons in Ready, Set...Go Alef Bet, Alef Bet Quest, Kol Yisrael 1, 2, and 3 as well as the 5 traits in Explorer's Bible 1 Animated, they will be rewarded with badges to encourage learning and track their progress.  A new section to the Online Learning Center has been added to show students' accomplishments called "My Badges" on the yellow navigation bar. 

Teach Israel

 Experience Modern Israel

New from Behrman House. Fly to Israel without a plane ticket.

Discover Israel

 Let's Discover Israel

Offer younger children an exciting and age-appropriate introduction to the Jewish homeland